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kryptonianCodeMonkeyI had a manager once tell me during a casual conversation with complete sincerity that one day with advancements in compression algorithms we could get any file down to a single bit. I really didn’t know what to say to that level of absurdity. I just nodded.
That’s precisely when you bet on it.
Just make a file system that maps each file name to 2 files. The 0 file and the 1 file.
Now with just a filename and 1 bit, you can have any file! The file is just 1 bit. It’s the filesystems that needs more than that.
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Send him your work: 1 (or 0 ofc)
That’s the kind of manager that also tells you that you just lack creativity and vision if you tell them that it’s not possible
It’s an interesting question, though. How far CAN you compress? At some point you’ve extracted every information contained and increased the density to a maximum about - but what is that density?
CouldbealeotardI think by the time we reach some future extreme of data density, it will be in a method of storage beyond our current understanding. It will be measured in coordinates or atoms or fractions of a dimension that we nullify.
MaxThis is a really good question!
I believe the general answer is, until the compressed file looks indistinguishable from randomness. At that point there is no more redundant information left to compress
DefederateLemmyMlYou can give me any file, and I can create a compression algorithm that reduces it to 1 bit. (*)
spoiler(*) No guarantees about the size of the decompression algorithm
The Ramen DutchmanHere’s a simple command to turn any file into a single b!
echo a > $file_nameHow to tell someone you don’t know how compression algorithms work, without telling them directly.
Well he’s not wrong. The decompression would be a problem though.
Yeah with lossy compression the future is today!
Maybe they also believe themselves to be father of computing