Comment by 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...
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