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lucianbr
on Sept 7, 2024
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WebP: The WebPage Compression Format
Push the work closer to the edge,
and multiply
it by quite a lot. Generate each image many times. Why would we want this? Seems like the opposite of caching in a sense.
sroussey
on Sept 7, 2024
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If you are reading a web page on mars and bandwidth is more precious than processing power, then <img prompt=“…”> might make sense.
Not so much for us on earth however.
roywiggins
on Sept 7, 2024
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This sort of thing (but applied to video) is a plot point in
A Fire Upon The Deep
. Vinge's term for the result is an "evocation."
bobbylarrybobby
on Sept 7, 2024
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All compression is, in a sense, the opposite of caching. You have to do more work to get the data, but you save space.
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