Terence Eden on Nostr: 🆕 blog! “Compressing Text into Images” (This is, I think, a silly idea. But ...
🆕 blog! “Compressing Text into Images”
(This is, I think, a silly idea. But sometimes the silliest things lead to unexpected results.) The text of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is about 146,000 characters long. Thanks to the English language, each character can be represented by a single byte. So a plain Unicode text file of the play is about 142KB. In […]
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(This is, I think, a silly idea. But sometimes the silliest things lead to unexpected results.) The text of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is about 146,000 characters long. Thanks to the English language, each character can be represented by a single byte. So a plain Unicode text file of the play is about 142KB. In […]
đź‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/compressing-text-into-images/
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#compression #ComputerScience #python