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Perl and line noise also share these properties. Don’t particularly want to read straight binary zip files in a hex editor, though. Human language has roughly
by dapperdrake 1y ago
Perl and line noise also share these properties. Don’t particularly want to read straight binary zip files in a hex editor, though.
Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose. (Or by Darwinian selection so ruthless we might as well call it "purpose".)
- 1718627440 1y agoLanguage is often consciously changed and learned, so it is sometimes quite designed.
- nlitened 1y ago> Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose. The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. Compare with redundancy in math notation, for example.
- Qem 1y ago> The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. The purpose probably is keeping human speech understandable through the often noise-filled channel of ambient sound. Human speech with no redundancy would have a hard time fighting the noise floor.