John, now that you've elaborated some more, I think you're just trying to say: there may exist an algorithm that performs lossy compression in the general case, but achieves lossless compression on certain specialized datasets. As far as I know, that's possible. It doesn't create some middle ground between lossy and lossless compression, though. It does one or the other, depending on what data you feed in. By definition, lossless = not lossy. The compressed result either contains all of the information that was in the original, or does not contain all of the information that was in the original. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T36c83eb0aa31fc55-Mb33cc2ac78413baac5e5026f Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
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