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Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs by crankylinuxuser on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:09AM (#19182920)
I would have expected something more algorithmic out of experimentation, to easily compare compression errors and otherwise interesting issues.

Nope. They chose porn from Playboy. And this trend continues on to today with "brogrammers". No wonder why women feel inferior in tech.

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Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs by Dylan16807 on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:38AM (#19183012)
> I would have expected something more algorithmic out of experimentation

Faces are a great test case. They represent a large fraction of the images we need to compress, and humans are very good at picking out issues with faces.

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