Fun demo. One quibble for the compression-as-intelligence discussion below: the honest accounting is 11 bits plus the decoder. If you only count the payload, any dataset compresses to ~nothing -- just bake the whole thing into the decoder. Kolmogorov complexity counts the whole package: data plus decompressor. That's not a knock on this post (11 bits plus a small hand-rolled decoder is still a genuinely tight encoding), it's just the yardstick that keeps these competitions honest -- and it's why prizes like the Hutter Prize score the compressor itself, not just the compressed blob.
