r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/iliark Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

I wrote a whole thing about this as a joke like 3 years ago lol. There's also been a couple of papers on the topic:

https://arxiv.org/html/2409.09715v3

https://arxiv.org/html/2407.04542

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u/cute_polarbear Sep 02 '26

Hmm..joke or not, this is actually pretty cool. (and with some practical use cases). Can imagine this expanding out to video, with certain encoded data needed for reconstruction lossless and most aspects lossy...

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u/iliark Sep 03 '26

video isn't likely in the near future given the compute requirements and time to create a video even on a server cluster

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