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Re:Card Trick Leads to New Bound on Data Compression (2010) by judk on Sunday August 17, 2014 @10:14AM (#8189401)
What a weird way to create artificial boundaries in thr science community.
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Re:Card Trick Leads to New Bound on Data Compression (2010) by amk_ on Sunday August 17, 2014 @12:03PM (#8189655)
I think Thomas meant that designing a lossy compression scheme inherently involves making decisions about what parts of the data it is OK to lose -- i.e., in audio processing it might be acceptable to drop frequencies outside of the range of human hearing from the compressed output.
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