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Site page load optimization by compression – Case study

I recently saw a video on “The royal game of ur”, this is a 4500 years old board game that was rediscovered in the 20th century. The rules of the game were not clear at first, but later on, in the 80s, a tablet containing the instructions was translated. I thought it would be nice to recreate this game online. So I did. When a user enters a website his browser loads multiple files. In my site it includes the HTML file, a few audio files and a few images.  There are three main reasons why the…

Information entropy explained

How much information is in the result of a coin toss? That’s an odd question to ask. It doesn’t sound right. You cannot think of information as if it were water in a bucket, right? Well Claude Shannon begs to differ. In 1948, Shannon published his paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” and by doing so laid the foundation of information theory. This theory became a really big deal, contributing to many fields of science, especially to the field of data compression. Information theory states that we can quantify the information that is contained in a random…