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phobotics on Sept 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge

Does it or does it just require 1% improvement over the last winner? As opposed to a static additional 1% improvement vs the initial best “score”.

omoikane on Sept 13, 2023 [–]

It's 1% over the last winner. The latest winner has a total size of 114156155, compared to previous winner of 115352938. The payout was

   500000 * (1 - 114156155 / 115352938) = 5187

(see table near "Baseline Enwik9 and Previous Records Enwik8")

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