Is Weissman's estimate for compression valid?

The show prompted the creation of an official score for lossless compression called the Weissman score, which was developed by a Stanford professor as well as a graduate student. Here are some more readings you can do on it.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman_score

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/a-madefortv-compression-metric-moves-to-the-real-world