I'm sorry, they never should have legalized it.
29.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For Arithmetic Encoding, it is made clear how the "infinite floating point number" calculations can be implement with a finite sliding window. There's a particular tricky part which handlings the problem of the window underflowing in precision.
31.01.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For Burrows-Wheeler, the key insight is the transform makes it possible to exploit all the "2 letter" repeated codes in the message.
31.01.2025 00:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In both cases, explanations I've read before cover the "gee-whiz" mathematical part, but doesn't explain the actual practical _algorithm_ required.
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YouTube video by BillBird
Data Compression (Summer 2023) - Lecture 15 - Infinite Precision in Finite Bits
This lecture truly explained how to implement Arithmetic Encoding (a compression technique).
The whole series is great. The Burrows-Wheeler transform lecture made it clear what is really being achieved.
youtu.be/EqKbT3QdtOI?...
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Correction: I'm a _talented_ asshole
29.01.2025 22:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to a Daring Fireball review of the latest Lumon release.
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