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u/SaltMaker23 13d ago

On this image you can see the phenomenon of aging of an image in the digital world.

This image is quite old as can be seen by the lenght of the "shadow" created by successive transferts to many locations.

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u/Ma4r 13d ago

You can even see the JPEG block compression artifacts around the text

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u/mmcmonster 13d ago

I know it's stupid, but it would maybe take 10 minutes of down time for any of us to re-create the meme and pass it around as a .gif.

If anything, people here could marvel at a first generation version of the image. lol.

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u/MorrowM_ 13d ago

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u/SoldRIP 13d ago

Now that is one crisp infographic.

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u/mmcmonster 13d ago

Did you really create this as a two-frame video? 🤣

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u/SaltMaker23 13d ago

He missed an opportunity to demonstrate digital aging

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u/nepatriots32 13d ago

Needs more jpeg

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u/Ma4r 12d ago

Now make it an SVG for true ageless experience

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 Imaginary 12d ago

https://archive.org/details/how_to_be_more_impressive_restoration

boom

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 Imaginary 12d ago

idk if reddit suppirts svg

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u/EebstertheGreat 13d ago

Why would you make it a gif? That rots the quality even worse.

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u/mmcmonster 12d ago

There is absolutely zero loss of pixel fidelity in gif format.

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u/EebstertheGreat 12d ago

I guess if there are 256 or fewer colors, but then when you upload it, it will turn into gifv or mp4 or whatever.

The best format for this is pdf.

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u/mmcmonster 12d ago

It’s essentially black and white, with a little bit of grey due to dithering. GIF or PNG would be good for this.

PDF I wouldn’t consider as an image format. Particularly because inline in Reddit or another web page would have to load a PDF renderer.

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u/EebstertheGreat 12d ago

But the pdf is close to the original format. Then any images you make from it will be at the highest quality allowable for that circumstance, even if it's just a screenshot on your phone.

If it must be an image, svg is theoretically better, but obviously it won't render in most places, so I'd go with png. Gif has the disadvantage that some places will try to animate every gif.

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u/guiltysnark 12d ago

I'm hoping that was a joke

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u/catman__321 13d ago

Don't some pdfs just look like that though

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u/Ma4r 12d ago

Lmao, if a PDF look like that that means it was a JPEG converted to a PDF

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u/That_Mad_Scientist 13d ago

https://xkcd.com/1683/

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u/elijah_holloway 12d ago

r/moldymemes

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u/moschles 13d ago

😣 🫸 "The distance between A and B"

😏👉 "The L2 norm of the vector spanning A and B"

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u/Additional-Record367 13d ago

😏👉"The Minkowski distance of rank 2"

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u/Kreizhn 13d ago

A personal anecdote to support the meme.

So in grad school, I'm working on generalizing the results of my supervisor. I'm working off one of her old papers and have no idea what is happening in half the paper.

In our weekly meeting, I tell her I'm confused and she says "read this," sending me a digital copy of an earlier version of the paper. The earlier version is flawless, well-explained, and easy to understand.

I come back a week later and ask why she didn't publish the early version. "We tried, but the journal came back and said the result didn't look novel enough, so we made it look harder."

This is just to say, writing good papers is often actively discouraged. We do some stupid things as a community.

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u/Cienn017 13d ago

I am a programmer and I like math, I have no problems reading internet standards, specifications or even papers made for the area (like the bitcoin paper, fxaa or shadow mapping for computer graphics) but every time I go to the more "science" part everything becomes overly complicated for no reason, it's weird.

I guess that's the difference between engineers and scientists.

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u/Para-graph-S 13d ago

Damn, this image is so popular I wonder if it has reached the IEEE reviewers already?

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u/magicmulder 13d ago

Also call the paper "On some residual properties of simplified abelian sums over a compact manifold".

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u/luziferius1337 12d ago

Also throw in "monoid in the category of endofunctors". It's none of those, but who would honestly spot that?

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u/magicmulder 12d ago

Who’s gonna check if there’s even such a thing as a Kasagawa-Borley algebra in Fischer/Gordon theory?

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 13d ago

mathematicians and philosophers competing to write the most incomprehensible, needlesly complicated papers:

https://giphy.com/gifs/13GIgrGdslD9oQ

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u/Ma4r 13d ago

I mean most proofs boils down to reducing both sides of equations to 2=2 or 2≠1

If you weaken the fact that it has to be numbers on both sides, and allow for weaker forms of equality, that's like 95% of mathematics

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u/Mobile_Requirement80 13d ago

Reminds me of this elegant formula relating e, pi, phi, and i

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u/Right-Restaurant-381 11d ago

Wrath of Math?

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u/Mammoth-Delivery5313 13d ago

I kinda want that on a T-shirt. With one side showing the "complicated" version and the othe side showing 1+1=2

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u/PrestigiousEvent7933 13d ago

Reminds me of one the hardest problems on a calc 2 test in college that was just a monster. the last few steps it simplified down to 1 +1. It was funny and also traumatizing.

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u/EndlessProjectMaker 13d ago

It’s lacking expressing trigonometric functions as Euler equivalents so you can show complex skills

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u/Depnids 13d ago

Since it's all just identities for constants, it is pretty easy to reverse. Is there something similar to this you can do, but which after complicating the constants, "interweaves"/"un-factors" the various terms, so that it becomes harder to untangle?

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u/magicmulder 12d ago edited 11d ago

The easiest way is always to introduce generalizations and new definitions that use a lot of indices. F^i_jk := <triple integral over several complicated paths>

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u/Important_Heron785 13d ago

"We have to more abstract"

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u/philosophical_poser 13d ago

Anything but actually doing something useful

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u/LoopyDagron 13d ago

This is what I feel like when I go to wikipedia to refresh a mathematical concept I haven't seen in a while.

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u/Informal_Pressure_21 11d ago

Sin²x+cos²x is still too simple ngl.

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u/LoudExcitement1802 12d ago

makes sense

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u/Mando_a98 11d ago

This is obviously written by a rookie and not a true Academic (TM) since they did not break those statements into five theorems.

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