One Bit Too Many
Huffman coding is provably optimal and famously within one bit of entropy. On the right source that one bit is a twelve-fold overhead.
compression
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The Shadow A Sound Casts
A loud sound hides quiet ones for a fifth of a second afterwards, and for a few milliseconds beforehand.
sound - 20
Hidden In Plain Sound
A loud tone does not make its quiet neighbour quieter. It makes it not exist. This is why MP3 works.
sound