Re: [asa] Information and knowledge

From: Dave Wallace <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 14:54:54 EDT

David Opderbeck wrote:
> That's why I said "/relatively/ lossless." I'm well aware the Shannon
> deals with compression and lossy environments. The transfer from laptop
> hard drive to flash memory stick is "relatively" lossless exactly
> because engineers have gotten pretty good at data compression. If only
> my transfer of it into my student's brains could be so efficient!
>

Do you mean "error correction" rather than "data compression" or am I
missing something.

Dave W

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