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submitted 2 weeks ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Richard Hendricks (the main character in HBOs Silicon Valley) has this photo on his wall (he makes a revolutionary compression algo)

He also has a photo of Huffman, another famous compression dev