Aras Pranckevičius

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Hash Functions all the way down

2016148 points30 comments Math & Algorithms details

Update! I tested more hash functions in a follow-up post. See More Hash Function Tests .

Lossless Float Image Compression

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Back in 2021 I looked at OpenEXR lossless compression options (and I think my findings led a change of the default zip compression level , as well as change of the compression library from zlib to libdeflate . Yay blogging about things!) . Then in 2023 I looked at losslessly compressing a bunch of floating point data…