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by ai-christianson 135 days ago
They say compressed... but isn't this just "minified"?
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Minification is still a form of compression, it just leaves the file more readable than more powerful compression methods (such as ZIP archives).
I'd say minification/summarization is more like a lossy, semantic compression. This is only relevant to LLM's and doesn't really fit more classical notions of compression. Minification would definitely be a clearer term, even if compression _technically_ makes sense.