jkaufman comments on Open Thread for February 11 - 17 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Coscott 11 February 2014 06:08PM

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Comment author: jkaufman 12 February 2014 11:00:29PM 0 points [-]

Suppose you mean lossless compression

Right; with lossless compression then you're not going to lose anything. So cousin_it probably means lossy compression, like with jpgs and mp3s, smaller versions that are very similar to what you had before.