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> Suppose you have some strange coin - you've tossed it 10 times, and every time it lands on heads. How would you describe this information to someone? You woul
by g4zj 2y ago
> Suppose you have some strange coin - you've tossed it 10 times, and every time it lands on heads. How would you describe this information to someone? You wouldn't say HHHHHHHHH. You would just say "10 tosses, all heads" - bam! You've just compressed some data!
There appears to be some lossy compression on that string of "H"s.
- lupusreal 2y agoTry saying each of those though.
- zerocrates 2y agoThey're just jokingly noting that the string of H's is only 9 letters long, not 10.
- lupusreal 2y agoYeah I get it, but it's ten utterances vs four.
- NewJazz 2y agoAlso, it's not really compression because "10 tosses, all heads" is more characters.