Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator
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The Importance of Data Compression in Silicon Valley
In a simple benchmark, Jan's project compresses a bit better than said, but three times faster. He calls it Z standard and now he has people's attention because compression is happening everywhere. So I would say every major player in the Silicon Valley that you can think of. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon. And also other players who show less and no smaller companies. Also at this time, the HBO show Silicon Valley had just come out. It's literally about somebody discovering a better compression algorithm. They are talking about data compression and it seems to be a big, a big theory in Silicon Valley. But maybe it made data compression sexy? I don't know.
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