78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code(jakobs.dev)
344 points by js98 | 131 comments
Blog post showing how to classify MNIST digits with about 78% accuracy using gzip compression distance in under 10 lines of code.
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Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?(kenschutte.com)
341 points by ks2048 | 109 comments
Blog post arguing the "gzip beats BERT" text classification paper reports top-2 accuracy instead of kNN(k=2) accuracy due to a code bug, inflating results.