{"id":13781,"date":"2014-07-28T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13781"},"modified":"2014-07-28T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:10:16","slug":"a-fictional-compression-metric-moves-into-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13781","title":{"rendered":"A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It seems that someone would have come up with such a metric by now. But, says Weissman, \u201cthere are two communities: the practitioners, who care about running time, and the theoreticians, who care about how succinctly you can represent the data and don\u2019t worry about the complexity of the implementation.\u201d As a result of this split, he says, no one had yet combined, in a single number, a means of rating both how fast and how tightly an algorithm compresses.<\/p>\n<p>Misra came up with a formula (photo above), incorporating both. Along with existing benchmarks the formula creates a metric that the show writers tagged the \u201cWeissman Score.\u201d It&#8217;s not a fictional metric: although it didn\u2019t exist before Misra created it for the show, it works and may soon find use in the real world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/view-from-the-valley\/computing\/software\/a-madefortv-compression-metric-moves-to-the-real-world\">A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that someone would have come up with such a metric by now. But, says Weissman, \u201cthere are two communities: the practitioners, who care about running time, and the theoreticians, who care about how succinctly you can represent the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[935,180,1312],"class_list":["post-13781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-compression","tag-math","tag-metrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13782,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions\/13782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}