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> For a nonsensical but amusing demo that lets you watch what happens if you apply JPEG-style lossy compression to text, check out this post. The link seems br
by phoe-krk 3y ago
> For a nonsensical but amusing demo that lets you watch what happens if you apply JPEG-style lossy compression to text, check out this post.
The link seems broken, since it points back to the same article at https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/not-so-fast-mr-fourier https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/not-so-fast-mr-fourier
- djmips 3y agoNeeds to be fixed to go to https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/afternoon-project-jpeg-dct-text-lossifizer https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/afternoon-project-jpeg-dct-te...
- maCDzP 3y agoSo I can feed a lossy text to an LLM and it can “delossy” it? Does the lossy text take up less space so this could work as a weird compression?
- datascienced 3y agoUse an embedding, then quantize (i.e. rounding) maybe?
- mateo1 3y agoI wonder how that would look like if it used word2vec.