Wednesday 27 March 2019

Humans compress images better than algorithms, experiment finds

Your friend texts you a photo of the dog she's about to adopt but all you see is a tan, vaguely animal-shaped haze of pixels. To get you a bigger picture, she sends the link to the dog's adoption profile because she's worried about her data limit. One click and your screen fills with much more satisfying descriptions and images of her best-friend-to-be.

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