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I find it intuitive to think of such “ordered” distributions as having a higher compression ratio. (Ie compare the file sizes of zipping a file with just ones o
by vehicles2b 3y ago
I find it intuitive to think of such “ordered” distributions as having a higher compression ratio. (Ie compare the file sizes of zipping a file with just ones or just zeros vs zipping a file with a uniform, random mixture of ones and zeros.)
- Solvency 3y agoHuh? I've never really understood this metaphor. Take any photograph in Photoshop. First, save one copy of it as a compressed JPG. Now, on the original, add a small densely repeating tiled pattern multiplied on top as a layer. Like a halftone effect, dot texture, whatever. Technically you're adding more order and less chaos. The resulting image won't compress as efficiently.
- dist-epoch 3y agoThe idea is to use the best compressor possible. So called Kolmogorov complexity.