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Comment by gyrovagueGeist

2 years ago

I'm not sure I see the distinction. Hashing is compression because the output is fixed size. It's mapping to a codebook that could be used to try to map back to the original space. Its incredibly lossy by design but it is a type of (bad) compression

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