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That's just a few parameters that you avoided having to tune, a few milliseconds of computer time. I'm not great, just questioning basic assumptions that have been handed down from a time before computers were around.


You keep on asserting that the task -- without domain knowledge of Shannon's theorem -- is solvable by computer. Can you describe how such a computer program would work? I'm unconvinced that the computer program would get a reasonable result before you run out of money paying for it.


The Shannon theorem is basically voided by compressive sensing. But all of this (shannon+compressive) was a waste of practical people's time anyway. It's justification for pencil pushers who don't want to do real work.



> That's just a few parameters that you avoided having to tune, a few milliseconds of computer time.

Really? What happens when you need to do a similar calculation across hundreds of millions of data points?




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