I disagree with this analogy. compression does not create towers of abstractions; the entire point of compression >https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/699709623406702592 …
@___jsf human-useful compression is going to look a lot different from machine-useful/storage-optimizing compression
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@sarahdoingthing ok i get it ok. if i do Huffman coding on some data i get two outputs: the symbol table to convert, and the output itself -
@sarahdoingthing in this analogy, which i still don't like very much, physical law is the symbol table, not the output - 3 more replies
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