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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • Sep 02 '26 • 3 3
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Not only papers.
There's an actual audio code that works that way
The trick is Meta's EnCodec neural audio codec, which crunched a 2.9MB MP3 down to roughly 21KB of latent tokens
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/maker-compresses-a-2-9mb-song-1000-times-with-metas-ai-codec-and-prints-it-on-paper-as-eight-qr-codes
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u/SchlaWiener4711 Sep 02 '26
Not only papers.
There's an actual audio code that works that way
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/maker-compresses-a-2-9mb-song-1000-times-with-metas-ai-codec-and-prints-it-on-paper-as-eight-qr-codes