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Comment by 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.

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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/

    • mohsen1  7 days ago

      As a black box it works. It produces smaller binaries. when extracted matching bit-by-bit to the original file.

      I tested across 100 packages. better efficiency across the board.

      But I don't know if I (or anyone) want to maintain software like this. Where it's a complete black box.

      it was a fun experiment though. proves that with a robust testing harness you can do interesting things with pure AI coding