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Apr 29 2021

Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with Huffman Codes

Christian, Computers, Programming / 04/29/2021

This is the third post in a series. Part 1: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun Part 2: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun : Text Compression 1 Part 3: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with Huffman Codes Part 4: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with a Prefix Tree (coming soon) Quick Recap Last week I established a few […]

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Apr 20 2021

Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun : Text Compression 1

Christian, Computers, Programming / 04/20/2021

This is the second post in a series. Part 1: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun Part 2: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun : Text Compression 1 Part 3: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with Huffman Codes Part 4: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with a Prefix Tree (coming soon) Programming Tradeoffs A lot of what we do

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Jul 18 2018

Compressing old DV Videos

Computers / 07/18/2018

I’ve been doing some de-junking at our house, and in this process discovered a box of Mini-DV tapes. I’ve owned two cameras that can write to these – an old Sony that shot in the original DV format, and a Cannon HV20 that shot in HDV. I’ve tried to archive these in the past, but due to the very high bitrate of DV/HDV and low

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Oct 12 2015

Mac Office 2016 – Saving some Space

Computers / 10/12/2015

For the past 3 years, my primary laptop has been a MacBook Air. Technically, it is a Mid 2012, 11-inch MacBook Air. It is a very agile little machine – I can do all of my development on it, plus play the occasional game (albeit at minimum settings). But the one thing that constrains it the most, just like every Apple product I have owned,

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Dec 2 2013

Upgrading an Older Desktop

Computers / 12/02/2013

If you follow desktop computer trents, chances are you know that Solid State Disks, or SSD, are quickly replacing Hard Disk Drives as the storage medium of choice. SSDs are more expensive per GB of storage than their spinning relatives, but make up for the smaller space by being much faster. I’ve had an SSD for over a year now – I bought a 256GB drive to

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