Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder

Re:Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder by sschueller on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:36PM (#13888942)

Lots of Swiss German coming from Google lately. Zöpfli, Brötli and now Guetzli.

I'm still hoping for a Google Now that understands Swiss German :)

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Re:Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder by cimnine on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:10PM (#13889662)

There's a huge Google lab in Zurich [1], probably that's why.

[1] https://careers.google.com/locations/zurich/

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Re:Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder by m_mueller on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:06AM (#13891899)

I'm a bit sad but I guess I could have seen it coming ;-).

https://github.com/muellermichel/guetzli

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Re:Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder by s3nnyy on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:56AM (#13892773)

Although Zurich's software engineers are as expensive as those in the Bay area, Google employs 1500 of them and they bought a new building next to the main train station to hire hundreds of new ML / AI experts.

(Full disclosure: I am a programmer and I try to match programmers with Zurich's startups for a living.)

So, if you want to move to Zurich, you find my e-mail address in my HN-handle. Read more about Switzerland in my semi-famous blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)

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Re:Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder by post_meridiem on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:40PM (#13889452)

I'm Swiss German and don't understand half of the Swiss German dialects. Swiss German must be the ultimate hard case for machine translation.

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Re:Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder by Cyph0n on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:05PM (#13889638)

I'm assuming it's because the work originated in their R&D labs in Zurich?

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