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Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by Everlag »

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'm all for teenage entrepreneurship and research but... this honestly sounds like the fellow who reads a single computer science text books then has all the answers to those silly issues that have been facing humanity for eternity.

Perhaps he found a way to encode data in neutrons ala Diaspora?

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by cheese1756 »

Given the claims, it sounds incredibly unrealistic. Then again, legitimate news agencies like Reuters published the press release (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/ca-techweek-la-idU...), but the details are pretty scant.

They claim it's patented. Can someone find the patents?

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by DoggettCK »

I had an idea awhile back about treating large files as insanely large hex integers, then dividing that by a huge known prime, and basically storing 3 smaller integers that plug into the equation "ax + b", where x is the known prime, a is what you found when doing the division, and b is the remainder. Plugging those numbers into the equation would give you the huge integer representing the original file.

I'm assuming the known primes would be in a database somewhere, and you could just use the indices, instead of some 512-digit number.

The process could be repeatable if 'a' was too big, theoretically enabling some extreme compression.

You'd need a way to handle extremely large ints, and in the few minutes I thought about it, you'd need at least twice the original file size available for compression/decompression.

I'm also pretty sure my idea is full of shit, but there are more details than in the article.

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by patricklorio »

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…

Wouldn't that just be multiplexing on steroids?

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by X4 »

Everlag wrote: post #9
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.

hahaha, fun how this thread turns out. But keep in mind: Using R/G/B Lasers won't increase the speed of light, so don't try to debunk BS with BS.

I have read about an indian student 4y ago who invented a geometrical compression algorithm that could save about 80GB onto an image, the size of an A4 document. Never heard back from him

Re: Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware

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Post by thetwiceler »

datphp wrote: post #8

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…

I hate to break it to you, especially since I don't exactly understand the scheme you're describing, but "virtually unlimited compression" is impossible [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon's_source_coding_theorem

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