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.<p>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.<p>The process could be repeatable if 'a' was too big, theoretically enabling some extreme compression.<p>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.<p>I'm also pretty sure my idea is full of shit, but there are more details than in the article.
Here are more details:<p>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.<p><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/14-year-old-inventor-unveils-patented-data-transfer-technology-at-techweek-la-232752181.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/14-year-old-inventor...</a>
"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."
It's always April 1st somewhere!<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>Looking forward to additional info on this joke/hoax!
Given the claims, it sounds incredibly unrealistic. Then again, legitimate news agencies like Reuters published the press release (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/ca-techweek-la-idUSnPnCG7YKJ0+16e+PRN20131121" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/ca-techweek-la-idU...</a>), but the details are pretty scant.<p>They claim it's patented. Can someone find the patents?
For those missing the point: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware</a>
This guy knows everything. From quantum mechanics (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicolas-dupont/79/217/325" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicolas-dupont/79/217/325</a>), to wedding journalism (<a href="https://nppa.org/profile/XtremlyGeeky" rel="nofollow">https://nppa.org/profile/XtremlyGeeky</a>)... while still attending to highschool.
Such kind of jokes isn't completely useless if recall "Noise level" by Raymond Jones )<p>By the way the most unrealistic promise is compression of congress library, because the data is determined.<p>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.
And not a single 3rd party tweet - <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TechweekLA%20Cyborg&src=typd" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TechweekLA%20Cyborg&src=typd</a><p>Given the ground breaking nature of this "technology" you'd expect a "best in show award"
It'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.
If this is a joke, it's a pretty serious one <a href="https://twitter.com/CyborgUSA/status/403664555944865792" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/CyborgUSA/status/403664555944865792</a>