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queeerkopf · on April 17, 2014

Naturally it defines all of higher intelligence and everything that any human can do (as opposed to things animals can do).

Wrong, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

willvarfar · on April 17, 2014

(You say the 'naive' way; how can it be compressed better?)

piqufoh · on April 17, 2014

Reference based compression! We create a set of reference sequences and simply record the start location of each identified subsequence - of course this relies on the assumption we can correctly recognise all genes and their variants... ahem.

willvarfar · on April 17, 2014

You mean reference to another copy of the genome?

Or you mean trying to find long repeat sequences that are slightly mutated in a way that is low-entropy?