Here's something that blew my mind recently: compression and language modeling are, at their core, trying to solve the exact same problem. Once you understand this connection, large language models stop feeling like magic and start feeling inevitable — like a mathematical truth that was always t...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/trismegistus/compression-is-prediction-and-it-explains-why-llms-actually-work-209e)