Data compression group on facebook

[Matt Mahoney]

For those on facebook, I started a new group on data compression.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=374973188325

[Cyan]

Good Idea, Matt

[Fu Siyuan]

Facebook was harmonized in China, and so was your site, Matt

[Surfer]

Facebook was harmonized in China

What you mean ?
BTW kaixin = renren ?

[Fu Siyuan]

What you mean ?
BTW kaixin = renren ?

It's a kind of Chinglish and be sarcastic. We here called anything that disagree the society's mainstream 'Disharmony'. Facebook for some reason was recognized disharmony and didn't pass the censorship. But some like matt's website being blocked here is obviously a bug.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_Ch ina

BTW renren and kaixin are managed by one company. renren mainly for college students and kaixin for officeman.

[biject.bwts]

You are very young so be careful of what your write. China is a
very repressive country. The peoples republic is a play on words. As
China has started to advance its young people want more freedom
and knowledge. I hope that the freedoms advance there since China
may be one of mankinds last chances to free himself of the earth
and finally explore space.

The rest of the world had a great run with capitalist market system
which to day is being destroyed by the socialists. In a decade or
so unless china decides to nuke us first. We in the west will have
more restrictions than your country. The socialists have already
destroyed our educations system.

I have never been to China but have visited Japan dozens of times.
China today with the thirst of knowledge and the education of its
kids reminds me of Japan twenty or thirty years ago. China or India
will be the only nations that have the capability to leave earth for
the moon or mars. That dream is dead in my country. Americas
new scientists and engineers have no more education today then
Chinese high school students.

I know I taught math in college here. I have met Chinese exchange
students. I think they are shocked at how stupid and vain most of the
teachers are in my country. The said fact is that my country is in
a death spiral unless things change a lot. Yes your government can be
cruel the Falun Gong have found that out. But all governments are
evil in some ways. Its best to try to fix the evils and move on. In my
country in schools instead of mentioning the good of the government
the socalists focus on the evils while causing more evil.

Sorry if I spoke to much would like to meet you some some day.
David Scott

[biject.bwts]

For those on facebook, I started a new group on data compression.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=374973188325

I really don't want a face book or twitter account. Whats
wrong with the site here or comp.compression that made
you start a face book thing.

Will you still post relevant stuff outside of that for those of
us who can't or won't become a part of face book?

[mahessel]

Found source code here http://compressionratings.com/i_csc.html

[Matt Mahoney]

If you aren't on facebook (harmonized, don't want to join, etc) you aren't missing too much because I still post anything important here.