• Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Isn’t it? Both methods just produced a data structure you can query to obtain a statistical approximation of a subset of the input data.

    Just because you moved the statistics from the JPEG to the ZIP file? That makes it ok?

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      15 days ago

      Do you think two students writing an essay on the same topic is plagiarism? No? Then congratulations, you understand why a lossy copy is not remotely the same thing as a statistical model.

      Really, you just chucked the word “statistical” into a poor description of JPEG, and refused all efforts to explain why that comparison does not work.

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          15 days ago

          Quantization in transformation space. I could explain it in enough detail for you to recreate the codecs I’ve written, if I thought you were actually listening.

          In the next reply, I’m going to print out your entire comment history, clip each word into a hat, and pull them out at random, to see if you still respond with equally nonsensical posturing about JPEG.

          In the reply after that, I’m going to copy-paste that posturing, but change a few letters.

          Everyone but you can see out the difference in these concepts.