Your example also neatly illustrates that not all data is equally meaningful. Yo...

pjscott on Feb 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Cra...

Your example also neatly illustrates that not all data is equally meaningful. You lose a lot of information when you do JPEG or MP3 compression, but it doesn't feel like you're losing much of value.

billswift on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

Until you try to enlarge that JPEG later.