Compression of random binary data
Thomas Jollans
tjol at tjol.eu
Thu Oct 26 03:57:54 EDT 2017
On 2017-10-25 23:22, danceswithnumbers at gmail.com wrote:
> With every transform the entropy changes,
That's only true if the "transform" loses or adds information.
If it loses information, that's lossy compression, which is only useful
in very specific (but also extremely common) circumstances.
If it adds information, that's poetry, not compression.
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Thomas Jollans
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