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Regarding Dasher, David mentioned recently* that he hopes someone carries on supporting the work. It's a brilliant example of arithmetic coding in action and he
by jordn 11y ago
Regarding Dasher, David mentioned recently* that he hopes someone carries on supporting the work. It's a brilliant example of arithmetic coding in action and helps many people communicate through low bandwidth channels. Now that he's gone, I don't think any has any ownership over the project. It'll be a huge shame for it to be forgotten about. If anyone's interested in helping in someway, mention it here and I'm sure we can figure something out. Here's a quick example of it an action (https://youtu.be/ie9Se7FneXE?t=28m38s https://youtu.be/ie9Se7FneXE?t=28m38s - Google Talk from 2007)
[*] David was still teaching us information theory just last month, despite going through chemo which by his admission seemed to take a lot out of him. By everyone's account he was astounding lecturer. He really cared that no one fell behind. Very sad about the news today.
- mjg59 11y agoThere's some active development at https://github.com/ipomoena/dasher/releases https://github.com/ipomoena/dasher/releases , discussed by David at http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/03/dasher-version-50-released.html http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/03/dasher-version-50-released...
- jordn 11y agoAhah, superb. I wasn't aware of that. Still good to bring attention to it.