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Sep 22, 2026 7 min

Zip It! - Finding File Similarity Using Compression Utilities - Computerphile

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Finding Genome similarity can just be a case of zipping the relevant files in the right order. Buck Shlegeris is CEO of Redwood ResearchPapers: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/similarity.pdfhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9030035/#sec4-entropy-24-00439Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com

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