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You can represent any book, any image or any sound with a large number. You can set up a cipher where anyone can write you messages using publicly available in
by rsaarelm 16y ago
You can represent any book, any image or any sound with a large number.
You can set up a cipher where anyone can write you messages using publicly available information, but only you can read them.
Human DNA is essentially a digital code, has a finite number of bits, and is smaller than data sets which we routinely manipulate today.
Every known way of making meaningful computations can be represented in a formal system which you can write down on the palm of your hand.
You can also write a recipe for producing the entirety of an infinitely detailed image, that keeps being visually interesting as you zoom in, on the palm of your hand.
- listic 16y agoDNA is deoxyribonucleic acid - essentially chemical compound, not a digital code. Instead, it can be said that human genome can be represented by a digital code, which has finite number of bits.
- listic 16y agoOne can also represent any book, any image or any sound with a small number.
- mthoms 16y agoI think he meant lossless-ly.