Yes, definitely. A simple example: one tool that will be useful to compress FW is just a dictionary (or index) of English words. Instead of encoding the letters of a word, you encode the index of the word in the list, and save bits by doing so.
You have to pay an up-front cost to encode the dictionary itself, but it should still be worthwhile overall, even for a single novel. Now when you compress two novels together, you get the benefit of the dictionary for the second novel without having to repay the upfront cost.
Yes, of course. But I was thinking of a more substantial savings. The question is more like, does Finnegans Wake represent a sort of pointer to our branch of the multiverse, which you could use to compress War and Peace down to a couple kilobytes? How much “entanglement” is there?
Yes, definitely. A simple example: one tool that will be useful to compress FW is just a dictionary (or index) of English words. Instead of encoding the letters of a word, you encode the index of the word in the list, and save bits by doing so. You have to pay an up-front cost to encode the dictionary itself, but it should still be worthwhile overall, even for a single novel. Now when you compress two novels together, you get the benefit of the dictionary for the second novel without having to repay the upfront cost.
Yes, of course. But I was thinking of a more substantial savings. The question is more like, does Finnegans Wake represent a sort of pointer to our branch of the multiverse, which you could use to compress War and Peace down to a couple kilobytes? How much “entanglement” is there?
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