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Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware
- marveller 13y agoVery excited but confused! Is this for real?!
- sergiotapia 13y agoAll of their other products sound surreal in nature and are most likely fake. Well done though!
- sciurus 13y ago"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."
- rfnslyr 13y agoI can't wait to see in which format HN decides to shit on it.
- Everlag 13y agoI'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?
- X4 13y agoNeutrons, Diaspora? Do you mean the social network? Don't get that, can you explain?
- Everlag 13y agoIn diaspora, a novel by Greg Egan that I'd heavily recommend if you like insane physics in the post singularity world, an incredible amount of data is encoded onto a single neutron which can then be decoded at realtime. We're talking about Terabytes of data at the minimum on a neutron. I love scifi and its crazy ideas.
- SwellJoe 13y agoJust the right age to be a child of 4chan. This is obviously trolling.
- phaed 13y agoHere 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-unveils-patented-data-transfer-technology-at-techweek-la-232752181.html http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/14-year-old-inventor...
- Everlag 13y ago"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.
- X4 13y agohahaha, 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
- desijays 13y agoI read that too. I agree..what that Indian student did, is a load of crap..
- ricardobeat 13y agoYou mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Storage It does work, he just slightly overestimated the maximum density :) There is an open-source implementation (http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/) that stores ~3mb per page.
- datphp 13y agoIt'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!
- thetwiceler 13y agoI 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon's_source_coding_theorem
- X4 13y agoI hate to break it to you, but if super massive black holes exist, it is maybe possible. (Curious, if this is wrong or can be broken too)
- evanphx 13y agoNot if the center of a black hole contains a Einstien-Rosen bridge, then the information is transmitted elsewhere.
- datphp 13y ago"I don't understand what you're saying, but you're wrong"
- thetwiceler 13y agoYep. And I'd feel equally confident making a similar remark if someone presented me with a perpetual motion machine as well!
- krapp 13y ago>offer instantaneous data transfer, no >limitless data compression, no >and truly unbreakable encryption no
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- cheese1756 13y agoGiven 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-idUSnPnCG7YKJ0+16e+PRN20131121 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?
- alecsmart1 13y agoThe link is no longer working. Maybe they removed.
- DoggettCK 13y agoI 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.
- gpcz 13y agoLet's try your algorithm with the number 25 (11001 in binary). One formulation is 2(11)+3. The primes up to 25 are 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23, so we'll use the index 4 to represent the prime number 11. To lay this out, we need to represent three numbers: 2, 4, and 3. Without the inevitable markings you'd need to delineate when numbers started and stopped, the bit string would look like 10 100 11. Using 11 as the prime, your compression would require laying out 1010011 to represent 11001, which means it's actually anti-compression.
- DoggettCK 13y agoLike I said, probably full of shit, but I think of odd stuff in the shower. With really, really huge (like the aforementioned 7GB) numbers, you might see something better, sort of how there's a point with most compression methods that the header is bigger than the data being compressed. Kinda doubting it now, though.
- gpcz 13y agoI wrote a little Python program that lets you try it with an arbitrary integer. It assumes that for instances where you have to lay out a zero that you need one bit (for 0). This times out quickly if you use too big of a number, but you can play around with integers here: http://codepad.org/4mnHI9E3 http://codepad.org/4mnHI9E3 Based on what I see, it compresses poorly at the beginning and then reaches parity. At 1,000,000 (tested on my machine, not Codepad since it times out), you get one bit of profit, but 1,000,005 is at parity, suggesting that it's not very stable. Also, this is assuming that the decompressor can make sense of the absolute smallest representation you could lay out these numbers with, which is basically not going to happen. That additional padding would destroy any potential savings you got.
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- bhewes 13y agoThis reads like an advertising campaign for a movie or video game. Aka "Prometheus" and "Deus:EX Human Revolution"
- blasstula 13y ago"Linux 12.04+" lol.
- blasstula 13y ago"Linux 12.04+" lol.
- blasstula 13y ago"Linux 12.04+" lol.
- chalkhed 13y agoIt's interesting that his claim on possible bitrate for wireless is 10^55000 bits per second while the cable bitrate is 10^54000 bits per second. Wonder what he actually talked about at techweek and if anyone bought it.
- arandomngirl 13y agoI do believe that the refraction rate is higer in glass than in the air? Am I wrong? Also as you know radio wave is an electromagnetic wave, and therefor it travels at the speed of light. The refraction is higher in glass then air ...
- ibudiallo 13y agoI read 7G without thinking twice, i thought it was the same 3G,4G,5G marketing terms. then ... wait a minute. Fun read though.
- fisadev 13y agoThis guy knows everything. From quantum mechanics (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicolas-dupont/79/217/325 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicolas-dupont/79/217/325), to wedding journalism (https://nppa.org/profile/XtremlyGeeky https://nppa.org/profile/XtremlyGeeky)... while still attending to highschool.
- trevvvor 13y agoFor those missing the point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
- Unregistered 13y agoAnd not a single 3rd party tweet - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TechweekLA%20Cyborg&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TechweekLA%20Cyborg&src=typd Given the ground breaking nature of this "technology" you'd expect a "best in show award"
- enko 13y agoIf this is a joke, it's a pretty serious one https://twitter.com/CyborgUSA/status/403664555944865792 https://twitter.com/CyborgUSA/status/403664555944865792
- mrjj 13y agoSuch kind of jokes isn't completely useless if recall "Noise level" by Raymond Jones ) By the way the most unrealistic promise is compression of congress library, because the data is determined. If kind of video or audio data is not determined (it may be year of black screen or zooming in-out mandelbrot) limitless compression rates is possible.
- dildocock 13y agoHey, to all you faggots trashing this great idea, please go fuck yourselves. You are worthless and know nothing. What have all you worthless low-life fucks done with your lives? Maybe watch an illegal porn vid and sucked a massive dick and choked on it... Signing off... Sincerely: Go FUCK yourselves.
- nick-ma 13y agomad mode
- Tweex 13y agohttp://bit.ly/1bZIDCk http://bit.ly/1bZIDCk No comment