Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

"Born in 1999, Nicolas Dupont is currently a high school student attending a prominent Preparatory School in Central Florida. This young prodigy, founder of Cyborg Industries, will be unveiling his four groundbreaking innovations during his unique session at Techweek LA. These innovative inventions will launch the start of a new era in computing, and will offer instantaneous data transfer, limitless data compression, and truly unbreakable encryption. Nicolas will be hosting his session at 2 PM, on November 21st, where he will be revealing his revolutionary technology for the first time ever. Solely developed by Nicolas, these innovations and inventions will provide multiple markets with a truly limitless technology."

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by phaed » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 3:21 AM UTC

Here are more details:

Spectrocable, his first invention to be launched and brought to market, is a new optical fiber system that uses 16 million different colors to increase data transfer speeds significantly, compared to technologies on the market today. With Spectrocable, data transfer will be instantaneous which will revolutionize the way we use the internet and share information. For example, the entire 40TB of the Library of Congress could be downloaded in less than half a second. At Techweek Los Angeles, Dupont will be demoing this technology and revealing how it works for the first time with a working prototype.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/14-year-old-inventor...

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by datphp » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 3:24 AM UTC

It's always April 1st somewhere!

Edit: I've once thought of a system which would allow virtually unlimited compression, the only drawback is that it would take an insane amount of time to execute.

Imagine a chess board, a 8x8 grid of alternating black and white tiles. Now you write an algorithm that performs permutations, 2 by 2, 4 by 4, etc, in a predefined order.

If you do enough permutations, at some point you're going to have all the white tiles on one side of the board, and the black ones on the other side.

You can now store your board as its size, 2 expressions representing the 2 halfs, and the number of permutations you need to reach the original state.

Looking forward to additional info on this joke/hoax!

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by Everlag » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 3:30 AM UTC

phaed wrote: post #7

Here are more details: Spectrocable, his first invention to be launched and brought to market, is a new optical fiber system that uses 16 million different colors to increase data transfer speeds significantly, compared to technologies on the market today. With Spectrocable, data transfer will be instantaneous which will revolutionize the way we use the internet and share information. For example, the entire 40TB of…

"Spectrocable, data transfer will be instantaneous"

So... he solved the issue of going past the speed of light?

I think the DOD just found their MVP for the next 10 000 years for he shall sit upon a golden throne and rule mankind with that kind of intellect.

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by rfnslyr » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 3:32 AM UTC

sciurus wrote: post #6

"Born in 1999, Nicolas Dupont is currently a high school student attending a prominent Preparatory School in Central Florida. This young prodigy, founder of Cyborg Industries, will be unveiling his four groundbreaking innovations during his unique session at Techweek LA. These innovative inventions will launch the start of a new era in computing, and will offer instantaneous data transfer, limitless data compression,…

I can't wait to see in which format HN decides to shit on it.