alt Hacker News> a clear explanation of a compression algorithm
The huffman tree, LZ77 and LZMA explanation is truly excellent for how concise the explanation is.
The earlier Veritasium video on Markov Chains in itself is linked if you don't know what a markov chain is.
I expected Veritasium to tank when it got sold to private equity & Derek went to Australia, but been surprised to see the quality of the long form stuff churned out by Casper, Petr, Henry & Greg.
I liked the presentation about paint mixing, however I think this is not impossible to find the missing key paint having the public paint and the message paint, but still, this is really close to what RSA is