44 points | by edwardog 1 hour ago
5 comments
This devalues the scientific value a lot because every line must be checked for correctness and source.
The book itself is very beautiful and I'm thankful for the high quality pictures.
Reading this in between studying information theory makes a good laugh. This is the most inefficient code I've ever heard of. It's basically unary.
For context, the first popular optical telegraph came ~300 years later, and used 98 visually-distinct coding symbols,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph#Coding_and_de...
https://community.carbide3d.com/t/locking-register-calipers-...
It would be interesting to see what would be involved in making the digital files which would allow re-creating each of these objects.
This devalues the scientific value a lot because every line must be checked for correctness and source.
The book itself is very beautiful and I'm thankful for the high quality pictures.
Reading this in between studying information theory makes a good laugh. This is the most inefficient code I've ever heard of. It's basically unary.
For context, the first popular optical telegraph came ~300 years later, and used 98 visually-distinct coding symbols,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph#Coding_and_de...
https://community.carbide3d.com/t/locking-register-calipers-...
It would be interesting to see what would be involved in making the digital files which would allow re-creating each of these objects.