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People are actually pretty good at reading text where only the first and last letters are correct. This suggests using a {first letter}#{last letter} encoding
by anamax 4y ago
People are actually pretty good at reading text where only the first and last letters are correct.
This suggests using a {first letter}#{last letter} encoding for words where the decompression replaces # with that number of letters chosen randomly.
- ALittleLight 4y agoI#m n#t so s##e t##t w###d be r######e. W##l, I g###s t##t w#s p####y r######e.
- jrockway 4y agoI wdoenr waht hpaepns if you jsut mix up the oderr of the lteetrs indsie ecah wrod. Even better, it turns out.
- pentamassiv 4y agoIt's easier to read, but not as good to compress since you'd have to store those letters. If the letters in the middle are the same, you only have to store the count of replaced letters. One byte should be enough for that.
- 8organicbits 4y agoIf you sort the inner letters instead of randomize then you only need to keep track of the distance from one letter to the next. byte -> btye -> bt5e letters -> leertts -> le0,13,2,0s You'd need to encode the offsets differently of course. There's probably other compression you can do when order doesn't matter.
- pentamassiv 4y agoI'm not so sure that would be readable. Well, I guess that was pretty readable.
- thih9 4y agoInterestingly, I decoded it as: "I'm not so sure that would be reliable. Well, I guess that was pretty reliable."
- pentamassiv 4y agoMaybe we are both partially right: "I'm not so sure that would be reliable. Well, I guess that was pretty readable."
- anamax 4y agoOkay, so maybe # of characters and index of the word that starts and ends with the specified character and has that many letters. That reduces almost every English word to 4 bytes. However, it might be possible to do the same trick with pairs of words.
- thih9 4y agoOr perhaps: "I'm not so sure that would be resolute. Well, I guess that was pretty remolade." I used a crossword helper this time though.
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