Comment by Vendan
2 months ago
information-optimal compression is "the theoretical minimum number of bits needed to represent data without losing any information, based on the data's entropy", so I think they mean the same thing you do
2 months ago
information-optimal compression is "the theoretical minimum number of bits needed to represent data without losing any information, based on the data's entropy", so I think they mean the same thing you do
Yeah, they’re saying that this compression is almost as good as is theoretically possible without losing any information.