Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesomeGzip compresses by replacing text with pointers to earlier parts of the text. Here’s a visualization of what actually happens when you decompress “The Raven”. It highlights the bits of text that are copied from previously in the poem. I showed this as a Thursday talk at Hacker School today :) I really like how you can see the rhyming inside the poem like (rapping… tapping) come out in the compress
