Re: Recursive Lossless Compression of Random Data Now a Reality
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:49 am
Call me a cynic, but claims like this have been made before and have always turned out to be fake. I wouldn't hold my breath over this...
Your world is waiting...
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Sounds like they rediscovered deduplication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication. Something EMC already does at the block level, which makes more sense. With an increasing level of mobile computers with slower processors, I think these guys are a decade too late.Therefore, if one file has gone through four passes to become a single 0 and another file has gone through five passes to become the same , by decoding the single 0 four times, it will be restored to the original file of 16 0s and the other five times to its original file of 32 0s, respectively, thus you have two completely different files decoded from the same single 0!
The guy did his studying in Australia and made the system for typing any one of 20,000 Chinese characters with a maximum of four keystrokes.duffman91 wrote:Maybe I'm a skeptic, but computer science research from China and India goes to my bullshit folder.
This guy is no bulshit, he knows how to make things.In 1999, after 15 years of dedicated work, Dr Wong produced and patented a Chinese computer keyboard (US Patent no. US 6,604,878 B1) that can input any of the 20,000 Chinese characters, both simplified and traditional, with a maximum of four keystrokes. This keyboard is vastly superior to any Chinese keyboard currently on the market. Using the underlying technology developed in the Chinese keyboard, Dr Wong has also developed the following all of which are protected by world-wide patent.
Ten-keyed keypad (English) - an input system (designed for use in mobile phones) which enables the user to reduce the number of keystrokes needed for a word by an average of two-thirds without resorting to prediction, memorization or complicated operational rules. All input is done visually.
Dr Wong has used the software that drives this keyboard as the basis for some exciting other forms of technology culminating in development and patenting of two major breakthroughs in compression of digital data.
My feelings exactly.duffman91 wrote:Maybe I'm a skeptic, but computer science research from China and India goes to my bullshit folder.