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I think the premise of their technology is humorously on target. I mean, there's no limit to how much you can compress things, right? :P It's sort of a metaphy
by kordless 10y ago
I think the premise of their technology is humorously on target. I mean, there's no limit to how much you can compress things, right? :P
It's sort of a metaphysical overarching joke rolled into the show. Anything on the show talking about their compression technology becomes necessarily unbelievable as a result.
Causality caused the file to be deleted on both ends!
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago> I think the premise of their technology is humorously on target. I mean, there's no limit to how much you can compress things, right? :P There are of course limits to how much you can compress things, but only for a finite number of possible files can you ever prove that you've hit the limit. For almost all possible files/strings, you can't ever prove you've got an optimal compression algorithm, so if someone's new algorithm appears to work better, well, you've got the burden of proof to show you've already hit the Kolmogorov complexity of the file and they're cheating.
- Joof 10y agoWell, I've compressed pi into a much smaller space.