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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
convert all your files to time series data today!
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
hmm, compressing lots of ordinary files as lossy formats
i think i could make that :3
i wonder how well it could squash down a library, though the information would be lost
flac could work for recovery though!
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
i also wonder, given the same starting material
which would compress better
like, avc or mp3?
or, even better, theora or vorbis :3
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
if either side was lossy compressed
it'd fade in some direction or another
wonder how it would...
probably wouldn't be in the same kind of way that reencoding jpegs or mp3s does
something unique, possibly combining the two in a way
either that, or the codec that drops more information would "win" in a way..
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
perhaps we record waveforms and experience oscillations
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
but then, the oscillator won't operate without a timebase, so, it's a waveform
hmm
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
huh, that could be a kind of an oscillator
video <-> sound
i wonder how many cycles it'd take
before it was the same in both directions
or if there's subtle losses in my transcoding methods
and it'd eventually decay to nothing, like a tuning fork
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
something about bandpassed sawtooth waves 👌
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
i wonder if you could do the same in reverse
follow a pixel through a video
brightness -> volume
boom, sound
would probably sound like noise though...
also would likely need every pixel in every frame
audio samples are quick!
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
i suppose take like, all the sounds in a dataset
seek to a bit into the samples
intensity -> brightness
boom, picture
would probably looks like noise though...
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
and pictures are like samples, slices of those waveforms
but like, spread over an area

wonder how one would make a 2d grid of waveforms, to take a picture
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
a waveform is just an oscillation with a timebase? perhaps.
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
a crystal oscillator is kind of a loop though...
weird.
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
i suppose if you require programs to have loops, the waveform isn't really a program

but then again, aren't all computers operating with electrical waveforms at their most base level?
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
it's kinda wild how you can make a working speaker make broken speaker noises
i wonder what other non-programmable objects you can make act the same way as their broken counterparts...

thouhg... i suppose the waveform you put into a speaker is a method of programming, in a way..
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
gabebox xcube
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
@xyla work: i swear i was framed!
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
hair: cut - all trimmed up
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
rest is a plot from big woke to make you less eepy
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tidy ~ janet @tidest@fishpost.trade
7mo
me: puts down phone to stop looking at fedi
also me: opens fedi tab on laptop

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