“Accepted.” They shook hands. Mary sighed. Over the next 48 hours, Sheldon commandeered the family’s only television. He soldered capacitors onto a breadboard, wrote a rudimentary compression algorithm on his Tandy computer (in BASIC, no less), and explained the concept of discrete cosine transform to an uninterested Missy.
The TV shut off. The lights dimmed. And from the VCR’s speaker, a deep voice said: “You are not supposed to invent this until 2003, Sheldon Cooper.” Georgie, hearing the commotion, ran in with a baseball bat. “What’d you break now?” young sheldon s06e06 h264
“You see, Missy, by discarding high-frequency visual data the human eye barely perceives, I can reduce file size by 90%.” “Accepted
Sheldon’s eyes went wide. “That’s impossible. I just named my codec ‘h264’ as a placeholder. How could anyone—” He soldered capacitors onto a breadboard, wrote a