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Lossy text compression has little utility.
by mik1998 3y ago
Lossy text compression has little utility.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Lossy text compression has little utility You're describing every book you've ever read and learned from.
- mik1998 3y agoNo, not at all. I don't read a book to regurgitate the text in an imperfect form later. I read it to learn about the ideas and thought. The syntax itself (ie. text) is not that important.
- _jal 3y ago> The syntax itself (ie. text) is not that important So, you're preferentially discarding information you consider extraneous to your application, distilling it to a smaller representation that retains what you consider important about it.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoMost image compression smooths skies. Because most people don’t want a regurgitated sky. If you’re an astronomer, on the other hand, you’ll compress away the trees. These are all lossy retrieval (and, inherent to compression, transformation) functions.
- dekhn 3y agoAh, see but what they really meant to say was "Lossy text compression has a little utility" but due to lossy compression the meaning changed to be the opposite, thus proving the author's point.
- barrysteve 3y agoGood books aren't lossy.
- stronglikedan 3y agoBlinkist would like a word.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Good books aren't lossy As someone who recently began rereading books, I heartily agree. The lossless original has value. That doesn’t mean the lossy imprint of that book in my mind “has little utility” or value.
- heavyset_go 3y agoOral tradition has had great utility for people for millennia, and it's very much lossy compression.
- riversflow 3y ago/s? lol
- nomel 3y agoDepends on the use of the text. If it's to transfer ideas, then fairly easy to rewrite things so they're more concise. For example, brevity can be used without hurting comprehension.