To me abstraction = lossy compression. I don’t think there is anything else there. An example of abstraction is mapping a specific human face to the word “face”. A really high compression ratio.
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To me abstraction = lossy compression. I don’t think there is anything else there. An example of abstraction is mapping a specific human face to the word “face”. A really high compression ratio.