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I think you’re forgetting that there’s no definitive way to represent something, compressed or raw. So while it’s interesting to acknowledge that we can compres
by dcow 3y ago
I think you’re forgetting that there’s no definitive way to represent something, compressed or raw. So while it’s interesting to acknowledge that we can compress data and sometimes rather efficiently, I’m not sure it maps to anything physical beyond the fact that decompressing data creates entropy.
Perhaps you’d be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle. Turns out there may be a minimum energy required to decrease entropy. Jade has a really good overview https://youtu.be/XY-mbr-aAZE?si=7DvSs2DMudsh6gk8 https://youtu.be/XY-mbr-aAZE?si=7DvSs2DMudsh6gk8