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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Is This Possible (or is it B.S)? [200:1 Lossless Compression]
- Message-ID: <71GF03Q9c9oC00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:54:37 GMT
- References: <1jndtq$odg@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1jndtq$odg@agate.berkeley.edu> forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest) writes:
- > Is this B.S. or should I raise
- >my arms and cry hallelujah?
-
- If it's (a) revolutionary and (b) held in room 608-7, you won't have ROOM
- to raise your arms, and the chest expansion necessary to cry "hallelujah"
- would probably crush those around you.
-
- > A model
- >based on the theory consists of an energetically conserva-
- >tive field of uniformly distributed photons and an observer
- >randomly walking through this field. Observations are made
- >with a bandwidth-limited set of transducers (an "eye") that
- >respond to events during the walk.
-
- This kind of post is dangerous to respond to... either it's a joke and you
- look like an idiot for making a serious reply, or it's serious and you look
- like an idiot for treating it like a joke. Compressing text by walking
- through photons just seems, shall we say, a bit weird.
-
- > The output signals from the
- >input set of transducers are "observed" by a second set of
- >transducers (a mid brain), except the bandwidth limit of the
- >second set of transducers is a non-overlapping lower fre-
- >quency range than the bandwidth of the first set of trans-
- >ducers, and only events from the first transducer set are
- >"seen" by the second.
-
- Got all that? My brain hurts. If it's serious, post a summary.
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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