This reminds me of a paper written in '77 by Donald Knuth about the algorithmic complexity/information content of songs and how it's been reducing using "devices" like the chorus etc. Basically, the idea is that due to compressibility, you can remember a song of length N by remembering just a fraction of N words.
I suppose it's an in-joke of some kind but given that it's from Knuth, there's probably something to learn from it anyway. There's also something philosophical about it. I used to memorise poetry because I enjoyed reciting it out loud dramatically. They were long and complex unlike modern songs which can be easily memorised and hummed.
I suppose it's an in-joke of some kind but given that it's from Knuth, there's probably something to learn from it anyway. There's also something philosophical about it. I used to memorise poetry because I enjoyed reciting it out loud dramatically. They were long and complex unlike modern songs which can be easily memorised and hummed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs