[140808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Kumari)
Thu May 19 16:34:55 2011
From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin5TB0vA=N88rPKOWNufespqBrVyg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:34:11 -0400
To: Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 19, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Landon Stewart wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam =
<avitkovsky@emea.att.com>wrote:
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>>> "inverse problem"
>> This is what I believe Landon meant in his original post
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>> Everybody started talking about compression -but that is I believe =
sending
>> the result of the function -where both nodes know the function
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>> But how hard if at all possible is to figure out a function(or set of
>> functions) and variables that describe the given data
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>> And than just send those functions and variables to the other node
>> And let it to recompute the original file
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>> Complex function can be represented by simple numbers to shrink down =
the
>> amount of data to be sent over the wire
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>> If the file is: 1048576
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>> -than that coule be represneted via:
>> 1*1
>> X=3D2
>> Y=3D10
>> Where both nodes would know that 1 =3D x^y
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> Just wanted to say yes, this is entirely what I meant. Of course the
> smaller the file the more pointless it gets but still... If the file =
was
> 1GB instead of just 7 bytes I'm wondering if a regular old workstation =
could
> put it back together in any reasonable amount of time with the =
equation.
While many folk have said "You've just invented compression", I'm going =
to be a little more specific -- "Wavelet compression".
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