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An interesting application of the Kolmogorov complexity to measure the similarity of various languages etc.

"Abstract—A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized information distance,” based on the non computable notion of Kolmogorov complexity, and show that it is in this class and it minorizes every computable distance in the class (that is, it is universal in that it covers all computable similarities). We demonstrate that it is a metric and call it the similarity metric. This theory forms the foundation for a new practical tool. ..."

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/similarity.pdf

“I liked the resolution of the 30-inch monitors, which is 2560 by 1600 pixels. That is 100.63 pixels per inch (PPI).” AND it was very easy on the eyes. My ten years old 30” seems to have blown a cap so I’m on the market for a new one. The 43” seems like a great alternative. Especially because 30” became only 50% cheaper over the 10 years, that means they are still (over) expensive.

We are actually actively working on Cyrillic-ASCII transliteration for glibc in this very moment. Please check this patch for details [1] Your help and suggestions welcome to make sure this will be a useful and consistent fix when it lands. The bug [2] is from 2006 (sic!) and it is a reason why transliteration may not work with iconv for some systems/locales. [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2019-q1/msg00010.html [2]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2872