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join:2002-01-08
Brooklyn, NY | Stuff and nonsense When the day comes that information theory is turned upside down, it will not be by a company filled with buzz words.
The likelihood is 99.9% that this will follow on the heels of all the other prior untrue "revolutionary" compression algorithms. |
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Thud
join:2000-04-04
Alpharetta, GA
| Well, there went mathematics out the door They claim to be able to compress a random string to 1/100 of its original size.
But the output of that compression algorithm would be another string that's 1/100 as big. Since the algorithm works on any arbitrary string, that means you can feed the output back into the input, right? Eventually you can compress everything down to one byte, with no data loss!
Just think... the entire library of congress can be represented by the letter F. I wonder what G uncompresses to? It's probably a PDF file explaining how to build a perpetual motion machine or cold fusion!
This whole thing is bunk. Full of MarketingSpeak(tm) and pseudo-science, probably to attract ignorant investors and then run away with their money.
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 FLea973Premium
join:2001-02-27
Morristown, NJ | said by Jason Bruce:
Since the algorithm works on any arbitrary string, that means you can feed the output back into the input, right? Eventually you can compress everything down to one byte, with no data loss!
Just think... the entire library of congress can be represented by the letter F
Not that I'm saying that it isn't bunk, but, if you are going to loop the output back through the algorithm a few times to further compress the data the resulting output would have to also indicate how many times it needs to be looped in order to decompress correctly.
BTW - A thru G probably represent porn, afterall, it seems to be the leading innovative driver everywhere else  |
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