John Rose, if you found a bug in gzip, I'm sure the developers would like to know about it. Gzip compresses rather poorly but it's the most widely used format because it's had 30 years of testing.
Anyway, if you're looking for that big breakthrough that will lead to AGI, this isn't it. On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 5:24 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-M835f64f10d06d7e63f6d6b14> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-M3b4b2c34e1e81d4e1b5b2206 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
