{"id":92951,"date":"2019-07-01T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ridiculous-patent-infinite-data-compression"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:43:34","slug":"ridiculous-patent-infinite-data-compression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ridiculous-patent-infinite-data-compression","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous Patent: Infinite Data Compression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cclaims to compress any input data by at least one bit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, suppose I compress 10 different files in this way \u2014 each of them compresses to a single \u20181\u2019 or \u20180\u2019 (a single bit).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why stop at a single bit? If it can compress any input by at least one bit, then it can compress an input of one bit into 0 bits. Infinite compression!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cclaims to compress any input data by at least one bit\u201d \u201cNow, suppose I compress 10 different files in this way \u2014 each of them compresses to a single \u20181\u2019 or \u20180\u2019 (a single bit).\u201d Why stop at a single bit? If it can compress any input by at least one bit, then it can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}