Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More The idea of using ZIP compression as a discriminator and measure is interesting. It's not as immediately obvious as using FFT's for shapes, back when we started shape categorizations, but it may be another interesting "texture" measure for a number of classification problems. Physicists have figured out how to use zipping programs to analyze and categorize text quickly, which could lead to a system for ordering DNA and protein sequences. By Bruce Schechter. [New York Times: Technology] 7:39:46 AM

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