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tptacek
41 days ago
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Compression is prediction
It's a great line, but that's obviously not all it is. You don't get new results in e.g. mathematics by looking carefully at the pixels of a JPEG.
dannyw
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If you have a validator for if a JPEG is a valid proof in mathematics, and can generate lots of "plausible" JPEGs, then you can arrive at hew results in mathematics.
the_af
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A few years ago it might have been. You have to judge assertions in the context of when they were made. Obviously some things have changed.
tptacek
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It's a good line! It's even sort of useful. It's just not the whole story.
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