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by lysium 5393 days ago
> if you want to do the incredulous thing, please put some thought in first

Didn't I just do that? You seem to assume I am incredulous about the paper whereas I commented on the article.

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Putting some thought into it. I think you multiply not add information density, but there are also limits on how complex a message you can decode. Consider the information density of each sylible is also limited by the grammer used.

1 cm left 4 cm up

If you drop '4 cm up' you go from a 2D to a 1D but replace up with blue does not mean anything.