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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Oct 29

    When you compress something sufficiently, you discover its essence. Conciseness has many advantages, but that is the greatest.

    3:40 AM - 29 Oct 2018
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      2. J H R‏ @johoromero Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        Except for music. Compressed music does not compare.

        3 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
      3. Phil Ashton‏ @flashton2003 Oct 29
        Replying to @johoromero @paulg

        Perhaps great music compresses more ideas/themes/joy into a shorter form compared with worse music?

        0 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
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      2. Shervin Pishevar‏Verified account @shervin Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        Sufficient compression discovers essence.

        1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      3. Norbert Mocsnik‏ @norbert_m Oct 29
        Replying to @shervin @paulg

        Reduce to essence

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      2. Matt Levinson‏ @MattLevinson Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        Could have done without the second sentence in this tweet :P

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Dickey Singh‏ @DickeySingh Oct 29
        Replying to @MattLevinson @paulg

        No :) - You would lose the fact that discovering essence is the greatest advantage of conciseness achieved by compressing something sufficiently.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Max Pihlström‏ @maxpihlstrom Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        Essence is the only advantage. Lossy or not lossy.

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      1. Ted Herman‏ @tedherman Oct 29
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        eigenvectors > kolmorogov complexity

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      1. Matt James‏ @mattejames Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        I think of conciseness less as compression and more like removing impurities and distillation.

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      1.  👨‍💻 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚑  🤦‍♂️ 🐶‏ @b_t_walsh Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        Concision is a more concise word for conciseness 😛

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      1. Pedro Fonseca‏ @Pg_Fonseca Oct 29
        Replying to @paulg

        So... 140 characters?

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      1. Jose L. Gamo‏ @jose_gamo Oct 29
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        Conciseness = cool

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      1. Rajiv Prakash‏ @rajivprakash Oct 29
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        Less tells more

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      1. Brett Moolenschot‏ @Schot1989 Oct 29
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        Could you do this in one sentence?

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      1. Orrin‏ @orrinsb Oct 29
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        and it's also how you maintain focus when there are always a thousand things tugging at you in different directions

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      1. Collin Bell‏ @SlightlyCyborg Nov 8
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        This reminds me of overfitting in ML

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      1. Arvind Nagaraj‏ @nagaraj_arvind Nov 4
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        Compress or distill?

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      1. KURODA Hisao‏ @KURODAHisao Oct 31
        Replying to @paulg

        Can you compress or concise Gogh's paintings? And you reach of that essence?

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      1. Marcos‏ @ofmorescale Oct 31
        Replying to @paulg

        And that is one of the reasons why twitter is so important

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