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Re:Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Info... by dapperdrake on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:25AM (#45640589)
Perl and line noise also share these properties. Don’t particularly want to read straight binary zip files in a hex editor, though.

Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose. (Or by Darwinian selection so ruthless we might as well call it "purpose".)

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Re:Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Info... by 1718627440 on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:24AM (#45640852)
Language is often consciously changed and learned, so it is sometimes quite designed.
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Re:Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Info... by nlitened on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:18AM (#45643046)
> Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose.

The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. Compare with redundancy in math notation, for example.

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Re:Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Info... by Qem on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:35AM (#45643189)
> The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training.

The purpose probably is keeping human speech understandable through the often noise-filled channel of ambient sound. Human speech with no redundancy would have a hard time fighting the noise floor.

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