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[โ€“] Mikina@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is it a compression when you need presumably gigabites of a model to reconstruct the data?

It's basically the same as saying I can shatter compressions records by hashing the thing and using a rainbow table to decompress it.

[โ€“] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A roughly 340MB model at fp16 is all it takes to beat xz and zstd by 2x compression on text