On Compressing the Textual Web

[porahi]

Yeah Thea video is awfull but there are interesting points. And tha audio is unaudible, a sad.

[Assi2004]

its as awful as ur english

[arubareefboy]

maybe google needs to buy TED talks aswell for the increasing the quality of how its recorded...lol

[iamufreak]

Arrg...This tech talk is useless.

Maybe someone should transcribe it so I can at least read what he says and mute the sound.

[jeffdaniels536]

Yes, the sound is terrible. It continues to deteriorate as the talk continues, and by 12 minutes in it's so bad that I can't understand what the speaker is saying.

[michalhantl]

Another ear splitting video! Please do something about this!

I like tech talks very much but this is death to my ears.

[lennyhome]

Here it comes another character with an answer in search of a problem.

[AzureFlash2]

@lennyhome "I sense a soul in search of answers!"

[sakathecheetah]

this does not bode well, for it confirms my darkest fears...

[lennyhome]

For sure. I mean, I watch googletechtalks to find out why I do exist and the universe, the forces, the energy and whatnot and what have you and things of that nature. I just didn't think that somebody was still concerned with losslessy compressing text in (almost) 2010 because it's a problem that has already been explored extensively in the '80. A lossy compression scheme that preserve the meaning of the text in full and gives, say, 2 bits per word would be useful.