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FuckButtonsyesterday at 8:27 PM1 replyview on HN

why is this amazing, it’s just a 1 bit lossy compression representation of the original information? If you have a vector in n-dimensional space this is effectively just representing the basis vectors that the original has.


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simonwyesterday at 9:01 PM

You can take 8192 bytes of information (1024 x 32 bit floats) and reduce that to 128 bytes (1024 bits, a 64x reduction in size!) and still get results that are about 95% as good.

I find that cool and surprising.

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