The user “JiaT75” inserted a backdoor in a tool for this task that was caught by Microsoft developer Andres Freund in March 2024. Kolmogorov complexity can be conceptualized as measuring an optimal form of this process. Inputs for this task can be preprocessed by the Burrows–Wheeler transform, which arranges “similar” characters together. One algorithm for this task uses symbol frequencies to construct a prefix tree. A family of algorithms for this task is named for Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. Shannon’s source coding theorem bounds the efficiency of this process. Huffman codes can be used to perform a “lossless” form of this task. For 10 points, name this process that decreases the number of bits needed to store information, which can create .zip files. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 49.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 89.80 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 71% | 112.86 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 93.89 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.29 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 99.25 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 46.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 68.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Birmingham | 11 | 10 |
| Matthew Siff | Yale A | Carabrandeis | 13 | 10 |
| Ragulan Sivakumar | MIT A | Brown A | 19 | -5 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Manchester | 27 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge B | Bristol A | 29 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford M | 35 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | CWRU C | 35 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | SFU | UBC B | 35 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech B | 35 | -5 |
| Matthew West | Purdue A | WashU B | 35 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | UIUC D | WashU C | 35 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 36 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | UW A | 42 | 10 |
| Danny Peelan | Pitt A | Ohio State A | 46 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 46 | 10 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | Harvard A | 46 | 10 |
| Yahwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan State A | 51 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 59 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 61 | 10 |
| Will Locke | Tennesse B | Clemson A | 61 | -5 |
| Sebastian Veras | Georgia Tech C | Tusculum A | 61 | -5 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Tufts B | 63 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame | 64 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Texas C | 64 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia A | 64 | -5 |
| Danny Fischer | Warwick B | Durham B | 64 | 10 |
| Katherine Lei | Stanford L | Stanford A | 77 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Indiana B | 79 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | UChicago A | Purdue C | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Arkansas | 83 | -5 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 89 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech E | 96 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan State C | 96 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Mississippi State | 96 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University A | Amherst A | 98 | 10 |
| Jacob | OSU C | Kenyon A | 101 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Oxford B | 101 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Central Oklahoma | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Central Oklahoma | 102 | 10 |
| Jacob Tow | Colorado College | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Emory A | 102 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech F | 102 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue D | WashU D | 102 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Texas D | 102 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | McGill E | 102 | 10 |
| Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Ole Miss | 102 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE A | Cambridge C | 102 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Bristol B | 102 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Bowdoin A | 102 | 10 |
| David Worley | LSE B | Vanderbilt | 102 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton B | 102 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale C | Brandeises Brew | 105 | 10 |
| Cindy Zhou | Boston University B | Yale B | 106 | 10 |
| Adam Monusko | Michigan B | CWRU D | 115 | 10 |
| Reilly Melville | Purdue B | Miami | 118 | 10 |
| Bob Freedman | Georgia A | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU B | Michigan D | 118 | 10 |
| Emmet Thomsen | Brown A | MIT A | 120 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | UIUC D | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Clark A | 121 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Bowdoin B | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | UIUC C | Northwestern A | 124 | 10 |
| Aaron Garcia | Arkansas | Texas B | 124 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 124 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Tennesse B | 124 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech C | 124 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | UChicago B | SIUE A | 124 | 10 |