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> So I'm going to number these points, and maybe with future startups I'll be able to pull off a form of Huffman coding. I'll make them all read this, and then instead of nagging them in detail, I'll just be able to say: number four!

I am curious as to how well this worked out.



Strictly speaking, it's Lempel-Ziv coding. LZ compresses text by replacing the second occurrence of a phrase with a pointer to the first, as above, whereas Huffman represents more frequently used characters with shorter bit strings, like Morse code.


But make sure your "tell it right" and occasionally refer to a number "they haven't heard before"


17.




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