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Good compression is quite complex and can go wrong in an unimaginable variety of ways. Remember when Xerox copiers would copy numbers incorrectly due to compre
by joveian 6y ago
Good compression is quite complex and can go wrong in an unimaginable variety of ways. Remember when Xerox copiers would copy numbers incorrectly due to compression? The numbers would look clear, they just wouldn't always be the same numbers that you started with.
https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs/ https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
- rasz 6y agoXerox problem stemmed from simple replacement of "recognized" numbers with learned dictionary. Good implementation would use learned alphabet atlas as a supplement, encoding difference between guess and source image. That way even predicted 0 instead of 8 wouldnt be catastrophic with encoder filling in missing detail.