On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at 11:45 AM, stefan.reich.maker.of.eye wrote: > At one point I wanted to add gzip compression to my webserver but found out > it was already doing it. The compression is invisible and doesn't change a > single bit in the transmitted information (HTML text). Explain to me again > what is lossy here?
Transmission incurs a potential for loss. To answer your question, confidence is lost. A miniscule amount. Compression involves transmission. There is a small error rate in gzip, it fails for various reasons. And there are ways to make it fail. I haven't tried to break it lately but it used to break quite easily. Create a massive file with all zeros, or dense directory trees littered with variously sized repetitive patterns, etc.. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-M835f64f10d06d7e63f6d6b14 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
