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Maximum compression should push ALL the 'work' to the compression alg, leaving essentially (no correlative bits) 'random' data to be decompressed. Good compres
by Jerrrrrrry 2y ago
Maximum compression should push ALL the 'work' to the compression alg, leaving essentially (no correlative bits) 'random' data to be decompressed.
Good compression, by definition, would leave small artifacts in the data, biasing it away from "true" randomness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...