lemonadebunny to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhat is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?message-square589fedilinkarrow-up1647arrow-down118
arrow-up1629arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?lemonadebunny to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square589fedilink
minus-square@SpaceNoodlelinkEnglish29•2 years agoThat’s pretty disingenuous, since most files aren’t just random data. Most real files actually have rather low entropy, even if they look like random junk (e.g., executables), chiefly due to repetition of similar data and sparse values.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoExactly. It’s merely our human preference for those types of files that allow them to work at all.
minus-squareqprimedlinkfedilinkEnglish12•2 years agothings get weird when we include “all possible states”
minus-square@SpaceNoodlelinkEnglish4•2 years agoIt’s not a preference; it’s simply the state of the system to which we may desire to apply compression.
That’s pretty disingenuous, since most files aren’t just random data.
Most real files actually have rather low entropy, even if they look like random junk (e.g., executables), chiefly due to repetition of similar data and sparse values.
Exactly. It’s merely our human preference for those types of files that allow them to work at all.
things get weird when we include “all possible states”
It’s not a preference; it’s simply the state of the system to which we may desire to apply compression.