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> He made the point of how many KB you can store in the song, but is it right? It's a decent Fermi estimate¹ :) We also don't know how many songs we can get
by alterom 1y ago
> He made the point of how many KB you can store in the song, but is it right?
It's a decent Fermi estimate¹ :)
We also don't know how many songs we can get the bird to memorize for us.
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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
- frollogaston 1y agoHe said 176KB of entropy in that 1-second birdsong, which doesn't seem close. That's more than the bitrate of a typical M4A, for a much simpler sound. Thinking about it in reverse, how much data would it take to encode 1 second of birdsong in the most efficient audio codec I can imagine. If M4A or MP3 with the bitrate slammed way down isn't a fair comparison, then some birdsong-specific ML autoencoder... Probably 500 bytes? Would still be enough for a Twitter tweet.
- alterom 1y ago> Would still be enough for a Twitter tweet. A tweet within a tweet!