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{ There is a cool compressing competition known as Hutter Prize that offers 500000 pounds to anyone who can break the current record for compressing [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md). Currently the record is at compressing 1GB down to 115MB. See http://prize.hutter1.net for more. ~drummyfish }
{ [LMAO](lmao.md) retard [patents](patent.md) are being granted on impossible compression algorithms, see e.g. http://gailly.net/05533051.html. See also [Sloot Digital Coding System](sloot.md), a miraculous compression algorithm that "could store a whole movie in 8 KB" lol. ~drummyfish }
Let's keep in mind compression is not applied just to files on hard drives, it can also be used e.g. in RAM to utilize it more efficiently.
Why don't we compress everything? Firstly because compressed data is slow to work with, it requires significant CPU time to compress and decompress data, it's a kind of a space-time tradeoff (we gain more storage space for the cost of CPU time). Secondly compressed data is more prone to [corruption](corruption.md) because redundant information (which can help restoring corrupted data) is removed from it -- in fact we sometimes purposefully do the opposite of compression and make our data bigger to protect it from corruption (see e.g. [error correcting](error_correction.md) codes, [RAID](raid.md) etc.). And last but not least, many data can hardly be compressed or are so small it's not even worth it.
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**[Predictor](predictor.md) compression** is based on making a *predictor* that tries to guess following data from previous values (which can be done e.g. in case of pictures, sound or text) and then only storing the difference against such a predicted result. If the predictor is good, we may only store the small amount of the errors it makes.
A famous family of dictionary compression algorithms are **Lempel-Ziv (LZ)** algorithms -- these two guys first proposed [LZ77](lz77.md) in (1977, sliding window) and ([LZ78](lz78.md), explicitly stored dictionary, 1978). These were a basis for improved/remix algorithms, most notably [LZW](lzw.md) (1984, Welch). Additionally these algorithms are used and combined in other algorithms, most notably [gif](gif.md) and [DEFLATE](deflate.md) (used e.g. in gzip and png).
An approach similar to the predictor may be trying to find some general mathematical [model](model.md) of the data and then just find and store the right parameters of the model. This may for example mean [vectorizing](vector_graphics.md) a bitmap image, i.e. finding geometrical shapes in an image composed of pixels and then only storing the parameters of the shapes -- of course this may not be 100% accurate, but again if we want to preserve the data accurately, we may additionally also store the small amount of errors the model makes. Similar approach is used in [vocoders](vocoder.md) used in cellphones that try to mathematically model human speech (however here the compression is lossy), or in [fractal](fractal.md) compression of images. A nice feature we gain here is the ability to actually "increase the resolution" (or rather generate detail) of the original data -- once we fit a model onto our data, we may use it to tell us values that are not actually present in the data (i.e. we get a fancy [interpolation](interpotation.md)/[extrapolation](extrapolation.md)).
Another property of data to exploit may be its sparsity -- if for example we have a huge image that's prevalently white, we may say white is the implicit color and we only somehow store the pixels of other colors.
Fun fact: Deep Blue was firstly named Deep Thought, after the computer in [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](hgttg.md), however it had to be renamed because the name too much resembled [deep throat](deep_throat.md).
It wasn't really a general chess engine like [stockfish](stockfish.md), it was really programmed specifically for winning the match against Kasparov, it focused on his play and employed even psychological tricks -- for example it had preprogrammed instant responses to some Kasparov's expected moves, so as to make him more nervous.
Less retarded society (LRS, same [acronym](acronym.md) as [less retarded software](lrs.md)) is a model of ideal society towards which we, the [LRS](lrs.md), want to be moving. Less retarded society is a peaceful, collaborative society based on [love](love.md) of all [life](life.md), which aims for maximum well being of all living beings, a society without violence, [money](money.md), oppression, need for [work](work.md), social [competition](competition.md), poverty, scarcity, criminality, [censorship](censorship.md), [self-interest](self_interest.md), government, police, laws, bullshit, slavery and many other negative phenomena. It equally values all living beings and establishes true social equality in which everyone can pursue his true desires freely. The society works similarly to that described by the [Venus Project](venus_project.md) and various [anarchist](anarchism.md) theories (especially [anarcho pacifist](anpac.md) [communism](communism.md)).
Less retarded society (LRS, same [acronym](acronym.md) as [less retarded software](lrs.md)) is a model of ideal society towards which we, the [LRS](lrs.md), want to be moving. Less retarded society is a peaceful, collaborative society based on [love](love.md) of all [life](life.md), which aims for maximum well being of all living beings, a society without violence, [money](money.md), oppression, need for [work](work.md), social [competition](competition.md), poverty, scarcity, criminality, [censorship](censorship.md), [self-interest](self_interest.md), government, police, laws, bullshit, slavery and many other negative phenomena. It equally values all living beings and establishes true social equality in which everyone can pursue his true desires freely -- it is a TRULY [leftist](left_vs_right.md) society, not a [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) one. The society works similarly to that described by the [Venus Project](venus_project.md) and various [anarchist](anarchism.md) theories (especially [anarcho pacifist](anpac.md) [communism](communism.md)).
**How is this different from other ideologies and "life philosophies"?** Well, one principal difference is that LRS doesn't want to [fight](fight_culture.md); nowadays as well as in the past society has always been about conflict, playing a **game** against others (nowadays e.g. market competition, employment competition, media competition, ...) in which some win, some can manage and some lose. Most political parties nowadays just want to change the rules of the game or downright switch to a different kind of game, some want to make the rules "more fair", or to make it favor their represented minority (so called [fascism](fascism.md)), some just want to [hack](hacking.md) the game, some want to [cheat](cheat.md) to win the game easily, some want to play fair but still win (i.e. become "successful"). LRS simply sees any kind of such game as unnecessary, cruel unethical and harmful in many ways not just to us, but to the whole planet. LRS therefore simply wants to stop the game, not by force but by making everyone see how bad the game is. It says that **competition and conflict must seize to be the basis of society**.
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These practices are not rare, they are not even a behavior of a minority, they are not illegal and people don't even see them as unusual or undesirable. People in the US are so brainwashed they even pay to see commercials (Super Bowl). Under capitalism these practices are the norm and are getting worse and worse ever year.
A naive idea still present among people is that ethical marketing is possible or that it's something that can be fixed by some law, a petition or something similar. In late stage capitalism this is not possible as an "ethical" marketing is a non effective marketing. Deciding to drop the most efficient weapons in the market warfare will only lead to the company losing customers to competition who embraces the unethical means, eventually going bankrupt and disappearing, leaving the throne to the bad guys. Laws will not help as laws are made to firstly favor the market, corporations pay full time lobbyists and law makers themselves are owners of corporations. Even if some small law against "unethical marketing" passes, the immense force and pressure of all the strongest corporations will work 24/7 on reverting the law and/or finding ways around it, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical.
A naive idea still present among people is that ethical marketing is possible or that it's something that can be fixed by some law, a petition or something similar. In late stage capitalism this is not possible as an "ethical" marketing is a non effective marketing. Deciding to drop the most efficient weapons in the market warfare will only lead to the company losing customers to competition who embraces the unethical means, eventually going bankrupt and disappearing, leaving the throne to the bad guys. Laws will not help as laws are made to firstly favor the market, corporations pay full time lobbyists and law makers themselves are owners of corporations. Even if some small law against "unethical marketing" passes, the immense force and pressure of all the strongest corporations will work 24/7 on reverting the law and/or finding ways around it, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical.
**Marketing people are subhuman.** Of course, let us be reminded [we](lrs.md) love all living beings, even subhuman, but the marketing trash not only doesn't show any signs of conscience or morals, they hardly seems [conscious](consciousness.md) at all, they are just a robotic tool of [capitalism](capitalism.md) -- however immoral shit they get into, they always just reply "[just doing my job](just_doing_my_job.md)" and "[it pays well](it_pays_well.md)" to anything. They make the worst kind of [propaganda](propaganda.md) which literally kills people, they would mercilessly torture children to death if it was on their contract. A capitalist is screeching HAHAHA IT NOT THE SAME bcuz CHILREN ARE MAGICAL n economy is pwogwesss, so this invalid. Indeed, it doesn't make any sense -- a capitalist will stay what it is, the lowest class of brainwashed [NPC](npc.md) incapable of thinking on its own. All in all, avoid anyone who has anything to do with marketing.
In the context of [licenses](license.md) the acronym NC stands for *non-commercial* and means "only non-commercial use allowed", which is an unpopular limitation that makes such a license **by definition [proprietary](proprietary.md) (i.e. NOT a [free cultural](free_culture.md) license)**. This means that a work shared under a license with NC clause is prohibited from being used commercially (which itself is a very unclear statement), greatly limits the freedom of such work and opens the door for legal fuzziness and therefore possible bullying. The NC limitation appears most notably in two [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) licenses: CC BY-NC-SA and CC BY-NC-ND; again, despite these licenses being Creative Commons, they are **NOT [free as in freedom](free_culture.md)** licenses -- note that this is not an opinion or controversial statement, NC licenses very clearly break the consensual definition of free cultural works and Creative Commons themselves clearly state this is the case; they justify NC licenses as part of the proprietary-free license spectrum, standing somewhere in between "all rights reserved" and free cultural licenses. Even though to free culture newcomers NC licenses don't seem like such a big deal, they are in fact extremely [harmful](harmful.md) to free culture, **DO NOT USE NC LICENSES**. NC is similar (and similarly harmful) to another proprietary license limitation: [ND](nd.md) (no derivatives allowed).
In the context of [licenses](license.md) the acronym NC stands for *non-commercial* and means "only non-commercial use allowed", which is an unpopular limitation that makes such a license **by definition [proprietary](proprietary.md) (i.e. NOT a [free cultural](free_culture.md) license)**. This means that a work shared under a license with NC clause is prohibited from being used commercially (which itself is a very unclear statement), greatly limits the freedom of such work and opens the door for legal fuzziness and therefore possible bullying. The NC limitation appears most notably in two [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) licenses: CC BY-NC-SA and CC BY-NC-ND; again, despite these licenses being Creative Commons, they are **NOT [free as in freedom](free_culture.md)** licenses -- note that this is not an opinion or controversial statement, NC licenses very clearly break the consensual definition of free cultural works and Creative Commons themselves clearly state this is the case; they justify NC licenses as part of the proprietary-free license spectrum, standing somewhere in between "all rights reserved" and free cultural licenses. Even though to free culture newcomers NC licenses don't seem like such a big deal, they are in fact extremely [harmful](harmful.md) to free culture, **DO NOT USE NC LICENSES**. NC is similar (and similarly harmful) to another proprietary license limitation: [ND](nd.md) (no derivatives allowed). If you use an NC license, you're a huge cocksucker.
**Why are NC licenses bad?** Firstly the *Definition of Free Cultural Works* project that maintains the widely accepted definition of free culture has an article on this: https://freedomdefined.org/Definition. Let us write a summary of the arguments ALONG WITH [our own](lrs.md) arguments:
Most people I talk to about this article privately tell me they basically agree with everything I write here, but they say I "shouldn't be saying this aloud". Well, what kind of fucked up society is this when I can't tell a truth everyone knows? What kind of medieval thinking is this, do we really live in such a dystopian horror already? Fuck this shit and fuck your silence, I wanna puke from your conformance to evil.
I have not once now encountered groups of people who tried to seriously push me to committing [suicide](suicide.md), simply for advocating not bullying people for a private desire, knowing very well I had suicidal tendencies and that I would never harm anyone, nor would I advocate any kind of harm of anyone -- not random strangers, but people who knew me for long. There is literally no difference from a witch hunt now. This is the kind of people you want to be? Just think about it for a second.
love & peace ~drummyfish }
Pedophilia is a sexual orientation towards children. Pedophiles are often called just *pedos* for short. Opposition of pedophilia is called **[pedophobia](pedophobia.md)** or [pedohysteria](pedohysteria.md).
Unary generally refers to having "one of a thing". In different contexts it may specifically signify e.g.:
- **unary numberal system**: A [base](base.md) for writing numbers (just as [binary](binary.md), [decimal](decimal.md), [hexadecimal](hex.md) etc.). This base is kind of an extreme, using only one symbol (0) and has at least two possible versions:
- **unary numeral system**: A [base](base.md) for writing numbers (just as [binary](binary.md), [decimal](decimal.md), [hexadecimal](hex.md) etc.). This base is kind of an extreme, using only one symbol (0) and has at least two possible versions:
- The most primitive "caveman" system of recording numbers with a single symbol, recording a number simply by writing "that many symbols", e.g. using the symbol 0, one is written as 0, two as 00, three as 000 etc. Zero itself is represented by an empty string (writing nothing). Though primitive, this system is actually usable.
- The system following rules of computers, i.e. having a fixed space, i.e. number of places, for storing a number (just as in binary we have may have e.g. 8 bits for storing a number). However since each of those places can only hold one value (the single symbol of the unary system, usually set to be 0), the system **is a [joke](joke.md)**, because no matter how many places, we can only ever record one number -- zero. The advantage is that we can store zero even with zero places, i.e. we don't even need any memory to store the number.
- The system following rules of computers, i.e. having a fixed space, i.e. number of places, for storing a number (just as in binary we have may have e.g. 8 bits for storing a number). However since each of those places can only hold one value (the single symbol of the unary system, usually set to be 0), the system **is a [joke](jokes.md)**, because no matter how many places, we can only ever record one number -- zero. The advantage is that we can store zero even with zero places, i.e. we don't even need any memory to store the number.
- **unary function, operator etc.**: [function](function.md), [operator](operator.md) etc. that only has one parameter (e.g. [square root](sqrt.md), ...).
