4 ms·
You cannot use 1GB to encode more than 1GB of information. A 1GB zip file does not encode 1TB of information. Sure, you might have a 1GB zip file that expands t
by PhilWright 7y ago
You cannot use 1GB to encode more than 1GB of information. A 1GB zip file does not encode 1TB of information. Sure, you might have a 1GB zip file that expands to 1TB of data but not information. That is because the 1TB of data has lots of redundancy and inefficiency in how the data is represented that allows the high level of compression.
- orbifold 7y agoThis is only true for closed systems. The nervous system incorporates a lot of external information through learning. Similar to how you need much less information to define a 1TB storage device. The 1GB figure also neglects epigenetics.