Clinton Svancara

Compression Is Not Preservation: A Question-Relative Architecture for What a Computation May Discard

Software discards information constantly. A log is sampled, a table is aggregated, a context window is truncated, a sensor stream is fused, a state is reduced to a latent vector, and a monitor keeps a checksum instead of the record. Some of those reductions are exact. Some can be undone. Some retain exactly what a stat...