Lessons tagged “compression”
2 published lessons with this tag.
perception
Internal monologue is lossy compression
Your inner voice summarizes and distorts more than it faithfully represents. What you hear in your head is a compressed fragment of what you actually think — stripped of nuance, missing subjects, and riddled with systematic distortions you cannot detect from inside.
schema
Classification is a compression technique
Categories reduce complexity by treating similar things as equivalent for a given purpose.