Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015

Re:Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015 by taeric on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:07AM (#10071345)

Not sure the point of the comparison. Yes, some of our encoding technology beats some algorithmic generation of content in performance. If the goal is size of encoding, though, it doesn't come close.

Tricks like this can help show how less than a gig of data is enough to encode an operating system. Or a person.

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Re:Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015 by piAcceptor on Monday August 17, 2015 @02:13AM (#10071570)

I really hope you are right about encoding a person in less than a gig, but what about the associated genome (3000 megabases), episodic memories and/or neuron connectivity?! Surely this is data that would be essential, yet very hard to algorithmically encode?

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Re:Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015 by taeric on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:22PM (#10074092)

I don't know enough to weigh in on if a person is just a gig. I'm just going off of this[1] presentation.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...

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