On Thursday, November 04, 2021, at 12:54 PM, James Bowery wrote: > You are using confused language. You don't mean to say all compression is > lossy. You mean to say all _measurement_ is lossy in the sense that any > measurement instrument is incapable of measuring everything so it inherently > throws away data. This is both trivially true and profoundly true.
Couldn't you say then that all compression requires measurement therefore all compression is lossy? And all compression will fail at some point therefore all compression algorithms are lossy. Perfect lossless is an unreachable ideal with practical utility. And the representation of a lossless algorithm is potentially lossy itself in addition to the transformation of the lossy data measured. The decompressed target data is not the original data since it traversed through time projected onto another media. And the original sampled data is unique in time-space. There is no way to 100% prove that the decompressed version matches the original data from backwards in time we just assume so probabilistically. I don't want to be a stickler but... just sayin'. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-Mf1ebca01a894f6536d8b71b7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
