From: an4914@anon.penet.fi (Nitch)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 10:23:37 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: N-Gram
Message-ID: <9312021822.AA28336@anon.penet.fi>
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>
>    Joseph M. Bugajsky quit Ford Motor Co. in 1985 to pursue his dream of 
>inventing a computer formula that would analyze and store data the same way 
>the human brain does.  This September, his efforts paid off with a U.S. patent
>on a system that spots patterns in data and compresses the data into 
>"memories."  These memories, Bugajsky says, take up only one-half of 1% of the
>original space.  That could make them a boon to banks, libraries, and 
>laboratories flooded with data.
[...]
>Any comments?

Compression down to 0.5% ?!?  HA!  Try saying that on comp.compression!!!

Let's see... That's half a typed page of data crunched down into five bytes.
Give me a break.  That guy ought to be sued for false advertising.

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