4K of English text is a couple of pages of a novel, enough to describe a charact...

jameshart on June 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated...

4K of English text is a couple of pages of a novel, enough to describe a character and a situation, maybe an interaction. A good writer can conjure up a whole world in 4K... but probably not a description of an arbitrary 3 and a half minutes of activity.

joaorj on June 7, 2016 [–]

That being said, speech is far from the best compression we can ever hope of achieving.