Can gzip be a language model?

A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
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The article discusses the potential of using gzip, a data compression tool, for language modeling without relying on neural networks. It highlights an innovative approach to generating text, such as Shakespeare, through an unbounded n-gram model.

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