@jbqueru@floss.social<p>Thinking about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a> for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> on monochrome (1bpp) images... </p><p>Obviously, Huffman does nothing. Obviously, RLE and LZ applied to bytes only catch repetitions if they're apart by a multiple of 8 pixels, i.e. rarely outside of large uniform areas.</p><p>But then, what works? Classic algorithms applied at the bit level? On pairs of bits?</p>
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Amadeus Paulussen<p>I am looking for a professional <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mixing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mixing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/electronicmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronicmusic</span></a> tutorial (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/gainstaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gainstaging</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/eq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eq</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stereopositioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stereopositioning</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/delay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>delay</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/reverb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reverb</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chorus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chorus</span></a>, etc.).<br>Can anyone recommend something?<br>Does not need to be free. Does not have to be <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bitwigstudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bitwigstudio</span></a> specific.<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/musicproduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musicproduction</span></a></p>
Chris Brooking<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@sarahdalgulls" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sarahdalgulls</span></a></span> Arduously long but one point struck me. The use of ambiguity in AI responses because it doesn't know what to put. In effect the reader sees the meaning in the sentence.</p><p>Does this mean that we are being gaslighted, and AI is not nearly as advanced as we think? Has it just learnt to produce text that is plausible to anyone and fits multiple interpretations, just like the tabloid astrology columns?</p><p>I don't think there's a simple answer to this. On relatively closed domains like writing computer language it definitely can produce real direct answers. On ambiguous social questions, perhaps it does produce ambiguous answers for us to project meaning on to?</p><p>I'm quite surprised that I hadn't noticed or thought of this possibility. I think I will ask some questions and look at the answers while asking myself "how would someone with a different worldview understand this?".</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Scientists are storing light we cannot see in formats meant for human eyes - Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can't ev... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/scientists-are-storing-light-we-cannot-see-in-formats-meant-for-human-eyes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/scientists-are-storing-light-we-cannot-see-in-formats-meant-for-human-eyes/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/multispectrumimages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multispectrumimages</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imagecompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imagecompression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spectralimaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spectralimaging</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imageformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imageformats</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datascience</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biz</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jpegxl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jpegxl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jpeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jpeg</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Fitting a Spell Checker into 64 kB - By some estimates, the English language contains over a million unique words. This... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/fitting-a-spell-checker-into-64-kb/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/03/26/fittin</span><span class="invisible">g-a-spell-checker-into-64-kb/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computerhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/bloomfilter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloomfilter</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spellcheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spellcheck</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algorithm</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hash</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a></p>
Poppe :godot:<p>New blog post where I explain how to minify your Godot export size, turning it from the default 93MB to a tiny 6.4MB file.<br>Some sacrifices were made, but this should serve as a guide on which options you can tune and how effective each one is!</p><p><a href="https://popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-minify-godots-build-size/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-min</span><span class="invisible">ify-godots-build-size/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>godot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/godotengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>godotengine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/guide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p>
marie verdeil<p>BOOK LAUNCH — How to make books more sustainable? <br> <br>→ How to make books more sustainable? Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.</p><p>→ During this book launch event, we present our "Compressed Book Edition", followed by a public discussion on sustainability in the book publishing business. We also have a number of copies for sale during the event.<br>18:45 Doors open<br>19:00 Book launch<br>19:30 Q&A<br>19:45 Book sale / snacks & drinks / networking / low-tech showcase ;)</p><p>📌 Barcelona — Akasha HUB, Carrer de la Verneda 19 (El Clot)</p><p>📝 sign-up on meetup! (<a href="https://www.meetup.com/akashabarcelona/events/306644137/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze_canvas&utm_campaign=mmrk_alleng_event_announcement_prod_unfiltered_v7_en&utm_term=promo&utm_content=lp_meetup&dispatch_id=67ceebedb8e8eab07052f4842939fd80" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">meetup.com/akashabarcelona/eve</span><span class="invisible">nts/306644137/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze_canvas&utm_campaign=mmrk_alleng_event_announcement_prod_unfiltered_v7_en&utm_term=promo&utm_content=lp_meetup&dispatch_id=67ceebedb8e8eab07052f4842939fd80</span></a>)<br>🗯 poster by our intern Hugo Lopez </p><p><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/lowtechmagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lowtechmagazine</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/lowtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lowtech</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/Permapublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permapublishing</span></a></p>
IT News<p>CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities - A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/compression-conjures-apparent-intelligence-in-new-puzzle-solving-ai-approach/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/com</span><span class="invisible">pression-conjures-apparent-intelligence-in-new-puzzle-solving-ai-approach/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fran%C3%A7oischollet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>françoischollet</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aicompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aicompression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aibenchmarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aibenchmarks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/arc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arc</span></a>-agi <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biz</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<p>Have you ever thought about how amazing modern <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> is?</p><p>When <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/quicktime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuickTime</span></a> came out in 1991, the video codecs didn't save you much space, and were very primitive. You could see the (temporally) repeating blocks very obviously, and they didn't have a lot of finesse.</p><p>Cinepak was the first one that had some real compression muscle, then Intel Indeo and others.</p><p>I've got a 113-second, 720x1600 video that SHOULD take up 21GB of data raw, but easily compresses down to 16MB, and I can hardly tell the difference.</p><p>That's 1360:1 savings!</p>
Marcus Adams<p>Revisited some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> algorithms after enabling multi-threading for xz. Here's results for my rip of the original Metal Gear Solid for PS1.</p><p>Source: 1.4GB</p><p>7zip: 802MB, 31 seconds</p><p>BZip2: 923MB, 1:12</p><p>GZip: 909MB, 33 seconds</p><p>XZ: 807MB, 32 seconds</p><p>ZSTD: 875MB, 3 seconds</p>
Michael Engel<p>Does anyone know the compression algorithm that was used in Connectix RAM Doubler which was available for Classic MacOS in the 1990s – or, this would be even better, was the software ever reverse engineered or open sourced?</p><p>Since Mavericks (10.9), modern Mach-based OS X/macOS uses the WKdm algorithm for memory compression, so it would be interesting to see if this was already used back then.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compression" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_</span><span class="invisible">memory_compression</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sueden.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/motorola68000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>motorola68000</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p>
JL Johnson :veri_mast:<p>Interesting! Prior to our winter weather, the drive in the NVR for our security cameras could store a little over two months of continuous footage. After the winter storm? I'm down to 48 days. </p><p>Makes sense, here's why:<br>Hard to compress noisy video (snow flying around) in the same way you would mostly still video. </p><p>Even knowing this, I wouldn't expect it to be so dramatic. Cool! </p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhatsMissing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsMissing</span></a>: </p><p>A modern competitor to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OperaMini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperaMini</span></a> with:</p><ul><li>(optional) better <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a>,</li><li>(optional) <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TUI</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TextBrowsing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TextBrowsing</span></a> mode</li><li>choice between different <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/proxies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proxies</span></a></li><li>native <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IPFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IPFS</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Proxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Proxy</span></a> Support</li><li>Supporting <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> </li><li>Excellent <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> features (only <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/allowlisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allowlisted</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cookies</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> are being accepted!)</li><li>Native <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DarkReader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkReader</span></a>-style integration to <em>darkify</em> or otherwise customize the output of the screen (i.e. print Amber / Green on black or Black on White for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/eInk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eInk</span></a> displays</li><li>Can be used not just with a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/touchscreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>touchscreen</span></a> but also <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Keypad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keypad</span></a> and arrow keys.</li></ul><p>Why?</p><ul><li>Because there needs to be more <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> that isn't <em>yet another <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chromium</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Fork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fork</span></a></em> </li><li>that is a good middle-ground between <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lynx</span></a> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TorBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TorBrowser</span></a>,</li><li>Because <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mozillaofficial" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mozillaofficial</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> is fucking up <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> big time by wasting <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> on anything but it as their core product...</li></ul><p>OFC since <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opera</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Mini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mini</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Privacy_and_security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">needs a trustworthy proxy backend</a> any <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/clone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clone</span></a>"</em> would need an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>'d & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a>-capable <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/backend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backend</span></a> (similar to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@ActionRetro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ActionRetro</span></a></span> 's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FrogFind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrogFind</span></a> <a href="http://frogfind.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">.com</a> as it breaks <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/E2EE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>E2EE</span></a>. </p><ul><li>Otherwise making the Browser just <em>lie</em> by not loading any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Multimedia</span></a> contents like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> unless clicked may be another option chosen if one doesn't have a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Server</span></a> to act as said <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CompressionProxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompressionProxy</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PerformanceProxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerformanceProxy</span></a> in return...</li></ul><p>Needless to say it would be a godsent for anyone stuck on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EDGEland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EDGEland</span></a> and slower speeds (i.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SATCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SATCOM</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Iridium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iridium</span></a>)... </p><ul><li>Sadly building a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> is thousandsfold harder than building a Linux <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/distro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>distro</span></a>...</li></ul>
OCTADEHexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet<br><br>DOI : <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469</a><br><br>Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.<br><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/conlang" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@conlang@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/languagelovers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@languagelovers@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linguistics@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter@a.gup.pe</a></span><br><br><a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=hexlish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hexlish</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conlang</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=alphabets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alphabets</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=hexadecimal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hexadecimal</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encoding</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cryptography</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=ciphers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ciphers</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crypto</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encryption</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Compression</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=papers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Papers</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=preprints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Preprints</a><br>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> I mean, it's a weird analog (!) optical (!!) media that suffers from disc-rot (!!!) and used long infrared lasers (longer wavelenght than the IR laser diodes for CDs as it predates CDs (!!!!) and it did <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HD</span></a> (or rather <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HiVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiVision</span></a>) with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <em>before</em> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DVD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DVD</span></a> and even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Dtheater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dtheater</span></a> existed!</p><ul><li>It's a far deeper <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RabbitHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RabbitHole</span></a> than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HDDVD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HDDVD</span></a> and a more pricy one too!</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkQEobE2RUk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=LkQEobE2RU</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQvnxxTuM4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=hUQvnxxTuM</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p>
Radio Azureus<p>JHS 3 Series Pedals work well ❤️🩹 on Bass Guitars including the amazing Short Scale ⚖️ Bass </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guitar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoundEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoundEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Behringer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Behringer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Joyo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joyo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pedal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pedal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sustain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Overdrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Overdrive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JHS</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhaGsC6pVz8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=zhaGsC6pVz</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
Radio Azureus<p>Do Guitar Pedals also work well on Bass I</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guitar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoundEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoundEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Behringer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Behringer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Joyo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joyo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pedal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pedal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sustain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Overdrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Overdrive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JHS</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NzQF_GvWE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=E8NzQF_GvW</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>If scientists want to determine whether an LLM has formed an accurate model of the world, measuring the accuracy of its predictions doesn’t go far enough.<br>For example, a transformer can predict valid moves in a game of Connect 4 nearly every time without understanding any of the rules.<br>So, the team developed two new metrics that can test a transformer’s world model. The researchers focused their evaluations on a class of problems called deterministic finite automations, or DFAs. <br>A DFA is a problem with a sequence of states, like intersections one must traverse to reach a destination, and a concrete way of describing the rules one must follow along the way.<br>They chose two problems to formulate as DFAs: <br>navigating on streets in New York City <br>and playing the board game Othello.</p><p>“We needed test beds where we know what the world model is. Now, we can rigorously think about what it means to recover that world model,” Vafa explains.<br>The first metric they developed, called <a href="https://c.im/tags/sequence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sequence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/distinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>distinction</span></a>, says a model has formed a coherent world model it if sees two different states, like two different Othello boards, and recognizes how they are different. Sequences, that is, ordered lists of data points, are what transformers use to generate outputs.<br>The second metric, called <a href="https://c.im/tags/sequence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sequence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a>, says a transformer with a coherent world model should know that two identical states, like two identical Othello boards, have the same sequence of possible next steps.<br>They used these metrics to test two common classes of transformers, one which is trained on data generated from randomly produced sequences and the other on data generated by following strategies.<br>Surprisingly, the researchers found that transformers which made choices randomly formed more accurate world models, perhaps because they saw a wider variety of potential next steps during training. <br>“In Othello, if you see two random computers playing rather than championship players, in theory you’d see the full set of possible moves, even the bad moves championship players wouldn’t make,” Vafa explains.<br>Even though the transformers generated accurate directions and valid Othello moves in nearly every instance, <br>the two metrics revealed that only one generated a coherent world model for Othello moves, <br>and none performed well at forming coherent world models in the wayfinding example.<br><a href="https://news.mit.edu/2024/generative-ai-lacks-coherent-world-understanding-1105" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mit.edu/2024/generative-a</span><span class="invisible">i-lacks-coherent-world-understanding-1105</span></a></p>
Karsten Schmidt<p>Very much liking the succinctness of the JS Compression Streams API[1] and wish I'd known about this a couple of years earlier. Here're some small helpers to compress or decompress a byte array...</p><p>I've just also pushed a new version of <a href="https://thi.ng/genart-api" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">thi.ng/genart-api</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (v0.11.0) in which the reference implementation platform adapter now uses gzip compression for serializing the data of image maps/parameters (in ~50-60% of the original size)...</p><p>[1] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Compression_Streams_API" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do</span><span class="invisible">cs/Web/API/Compression_Streams_API</span></a></p><p>(edit: removed obsolete `async`)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/TypeScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TypeScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Streams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Streams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/GZIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GZIP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Binary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Binary</span></a></p>
✨🇪🇺 Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️⚧️✨<p>Whoooaaaa</p><p>> NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks</p><p>It can compress a dump of the English Wikipedia that is 1,000,000,000 bytes long into a file that is 106,632,363 long.</p><p>What means that we can compress text by 89.34%.</p><p>Or in bits per bytes 0.853.<br>What means that for every byte uncompressed data, we need 0.853 bits in the compressed data.</p><p>This is just absolutely mind blowing! :blobcatsweats: 🤯 </p><p><a href="https://bellard.org/nncp/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bellard.org/nncp/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NeuralNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeuralNetworks</span></a></p>
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