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The formula that helped the nerds in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ get rich is being used in the real world

30
Jul
2014

HBOs satirical show Silicon Valley begins with a programmer who accidentally develops a radically efficient new algorithm for compressing data. The thing is, the Weissman score didnt exist until Silicon Valleys production team willed it into being. While the show was being developed, actual Stanford professor Tsachy Weissman and then-PhD student Vinith Misra were hired […]

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A Stanford engineer built the fake compression algorithm in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

26
Jul
2014

The creators of HBOs Silicon Valley could have glossed over the breakthrough technology behind fictional start-up Pied Piper, but instead they reached out to a Stanford professor for some help crafting a compression algorithm that seemed perfectly plausible on the surface. Ultimately, Ph.D student Vinith Misra was brought in to work on the nitty-gritty details of […]

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