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This article explains why .tar.gz files cannot be combined using the cat command due to tar's end-of-file markers and offers a Python solution using the tarfile module to merge archives correctly.
This article explores using the gzip compression algorithm as a language model, demonstrating that compression algorithms can generate text by scoring candidate continuations based on compressed length, using beam search to produce output.
The tweet describes how any compression tool, including gzip, can be adapted for language modeling, and that gzip can generate text that resembles Shakespeare. A write-up is linked.