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AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The library of Alexandria supposedly contains some 13 to 15 GB of data.
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AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The library of Alexandria supposedly contains some 13 to 15 GB of data.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now I’m interested in a source for that.
How did they come up with that measurement?
I’m assuming text would use Unicode so that they could capture more letters/symbols for different languages?
Also, are they including maps/images using 4k resolution images?
Are they re-rendering any statues/artworks as 3D models?
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They don’t need to use unicode, because it’s just an estimate of containing “information”. It doesn’t matter what language it’s in or which encoding we chose. It’s not an exercise in optimization
Why would they store 4k. They aren’t trying to store a high quality historical copy. The average drawing of those days would be estimated to an equivalent image in a book or other media. 4k is not the average.
Storing information this way is not relevant, it’s not an exercise in optimization, and doesn’t help make the study representative or meaningful. If you google this you’ll find how they estimate it. It won’t focus on the computer science of it.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can you link to how they estimated it? I gave it a quick search and my results didn’t seem to be anything useful.
In a way, it really does matter or else these numbers are meaningless and won’t mean the same thing to someone from the future (or past). Just think about how big 15GB was ~20-30 years ago (before compression became popular for websites). Telling someone in that time period that there were 13-15GB worth of information in a library would have severely underestimated just how much information was actually contained (unless were strictly talking only about text here).
I think you misunderstood my question. I wasn’t stating that they would (or should) store it in 4k, just wondering if their data storage estimates included maps/drawings/paintings that could have been in the library as well as what sort of quality they would have used for that kind of storage. Images can easily use up tons of data depending on what format you’re using.
Let me try explaining it in a different way. Imagine we had a small device that created a pocket dimension while also being able to shrink objects inserted into it down to about half it’s size. Let’s also say that the pocket dimension was big enough to store 100m³ And somehow this fits the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria. Let’s call that device a pokédim. Some research paper could say, “the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria can fit in 100m³ of a pokédim!”
A few years go by and the pokédim gets an upgrade and it can shrink objects down to 1/100th of it’s original size. Now, the problem with someone reading that previous statement is that it is no longer relevant.
What the statement should have been is, “the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria can fit in 100m³ of a pokédim when shrunk down to half its size!”
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok chatgpt, you just wanted to string words together knowing very little how computers work, or how studies/conclusions work for that matter.