A way too serious look at the Weissman score

Over the past days I&rsquo;ve been rewatching Silicon Valley. Something moved in me, maybe I&rsquo;ve gotten nostalgic for this show or maybe I just remembered that I enjoyed watching it. In the first season - which I think is the most iconic one - the final episode gives a memorable scene where Richard manages to create a &ldquo;middle-out&rdquo; compression algorithm that breaks the theoretical…