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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by laverya on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:29PM (#26686445)
Kind of ironic, given how small the sources are.
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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by mckirk on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:18AM (#26688217)
That actually nicely illustrates the parallel between AI and compression. An 'almighty' AI would be able to reverse engineer the source code from what it sees and compress it back down to that size.

But then it might determine that the best compression would be no transmission at all, and decide to eradicate any potential viewers. Those damn pesky almighty AIs.

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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by toxik on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:58AM (#26687680)
Interesting challenge

Smallest demo that compressed to the largest video file

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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by makapuf on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:09AM (#26687727)
Cat /dev/random?
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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by vanviegen on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:49AM (#26689366)
That would actually be really easy to replicate in such a way that no human could tell the difference.
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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by toxik on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:48AM (#26698903)
Somewhat lacking in the aesthetic department
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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by timClicks on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:34AM (#26688053)
Surely dd would be faster than that.
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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by CodesInChaos on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:22PM (#26691233)
/dev/random is super slow and even /dev/urandom is surprisingly slow. If you care about performance, something like round reduced AES or ChaCha would be a decent choice.
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Re:Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream by IcePic on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:51AM (#26748872)
OpenBSD /dev/(u)random uses ChaCha20 and gives me a few hundred MB/s on recent hw.
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