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Old 18th April 2019, 20:25   #31  |  Link
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Originally Posted by dapperdan View Post
https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html

Xiphmont's post about the ANS patent thing has all the nuance that gets lost in the retelling of this story.
For saying how he doesn't want to defend Google he sure seems to. It baffled me a bit when he basically addressed the whole matter by telling Duda to shut up go smoke cannabis instead. Maybe it's the classical case of poor joke that wasn't really meant to offend but was too dumb, but well... it involuntarily kind of started shifting my impression of the guy as I read that.

Also I think that the compression efficiency or usefulness of the algorithm has zero importance in the matter of Google's patenting attempt at all, so why bring it up.
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