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Comment by mohsen1

8 days ago

Hers is one: https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh

beats the best compression out there by 6% on average. Yet nobody will care because it was not hand written

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jacquesm  8 days ago

That's a very interesting case. If you want I will look into this in more detail, I'm waiting for some parts so I have some time to kill.

  • mohsen1  7 days ago

    Are you an expert in this field? I'm curious if the AI generated code here is actually good.

    • jacquesm  7 days ago

      I've done some work on compression really long ago but I am very far from an expert in the field, in fact I'm not an expert in any field ;) The best I ever did was a way to compress video better than what was available at the time but wavelets overtook that and I have not kept current.

      I'm curious about two things:

      - is it really that much better (if so, that would by itself be a publishable result) where better is

        - not worse for other cases

  - always better for the cases documented

      I think that's a fair challenge.

      - is it correct?

      And as a sidetrack to the latter: can it be understood to the point that you can prove it is correct? Unfortunately I don't have experience with your toolchain but that's a nice learning opportunity.

      Question: are you familiar with

      https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_corpus

      https://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz/

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