Chapter 11 Infinite Compression
Li Maoye did not take this matter to heart after returning from Penguin Company.
He accelerated the application for the soft copyright and algorithm patent of Liquid Cat, and was considering whether to start a company with Monkey and others to facilitate future negotiations on cooperation matters.
After this experience, Li Maoye reaffirmed that he was not good at dealing with people, so he should do research honestly!
There are many black technologies waiting for him in the cvi database!
On the other hand, the tank was not slow, so I quickly contacted the ferry company.
Li Maoye didn't want to spend time in this regard, so he also gave the tank full authority to speak with the ferry himself.
Unfortunately, the tank was looking for something wrong. No matter how he was selling the "liquid cat" to the ferry, he just didn't even take a look. He didn't even ask the technician to test it. Only one market business was following up.
Whenever the tank talks about how awesome the compression ratio of the "liquid cat" is, the ferry business will be impatient and say: "Okay OK! Needless to say, can you compress the file losslessly to one-tenth of the original volume? This is a joke! Our technology is talking about it, it is impossible and does not conform to mathematical theory at all!"
The tank quickly took out the relevant information and tried to prove that this was true. Business did not understand these technical problems, so they called a few ferrying technologies to come and take a look.
The ferry technology supervisor glanced at the code for a few glances and stopped reading it, and then passed it to other technologies. No one could understand the above code, and they didn't believe it was true.
"Your code is messy, can't you use it to fool people, right?"
"I have never seen such a hot code in so many years."
"That's right, that's just a random writing, even worse than beginners!"
"In theory, it can be infinitely compressed? Are you a fool?"
"It must be a lie, don't think about it!"
"I've asked Penguin for a long time, and they had thought about buying this software, but during the acceptance phase, the technical supervisor immediately terminated the acquisition process when he saw the code was written in such a mess!"
"Oh, then if you say so, you have been discovered by Penguin Company. How dare you come to the ferry and continue to cheat?"
"Let's just call the police."
Tank heard this and said, "No! Absolutely, if you don't believe me, use it to compress it and take a look, and you will know that I have not lie to you."
"No, who knows what the hell are you doing!"
"We won't send you to the police station, but stay here and don't disturb our work!"
Maybe the people who are ferrying are knowledgeable and have too many cheating people, and are more vigilant about such things, or the people who are connected with them are not compressed professionals at all, and they don’t take the time to study it carefully, they just deal with it at will.
Anyway, missing out on the “liquid cat” is the loss of ferrying and penguins!
"Haha, the ferry actually swept you out?" The monkey smiled so hard that he trembled, saying that it was a pity that he missed such a wonderful scene.
"Okay, if you don't know the goods on the Penguin Ferry, you don't have to pay attention to them."
Li Maoye was not panicked at all. At worst, he could throw the "liquid cat" online and charge a monthly fee. Even if the Penguin ferry comes to him in the future, he would not cooperate with the other party.
"Just don't just pack it and sell it together. We quit our job and start a business with Maoye. We use liquid cats to make a super network disk to grab the market, so that they can all drink the northwest wind! Haha!" The monkey quipped half-jokingly.
Tank still had some doubts about the major event of entrepreneurship and did not immediately express his approval.
Start a business?
Li Maoye thought seriously: "If you do a one-time business, you will get money quickly, and it will be a bit of a loss. If there is a company that is specifically responsible for liquid cat promotion cooperation, it will be much better than now."
Judging from Penguin's attitude, if he doesn't come up with an algorithm as part of the transaction, they will not be willing to spend a lot of money. I guess they will encounter such a thing when they go to other big companies to promote it.
Tank made up his mind and said, "Maybe we should change our thinking. We don't sell software and only provide compression services. I believe that many network disk companies are willing to cooperate. The question is whether we can put the compression function of the liquid cat on the cloud server and then charge based on traffic."
The monkey scratched his head a little after hearing this: "Master, you have to ask me this, right?"
"sure!"
Li Maoye answered without hesitation. Even if he only had a simple PC compression software in his hand, as long as he went back to get the interface ready, the rest would be some coding work, and he would need to spend money to recruit people to do it, and he would always make the required software functions.
"Then let's make a plan first?" the monkey said, touching his thin chin.
"I think this path is feasible!" Tank nodded for sure.
"Then let you leave the matters of opening a company and foreign negotiations in the future."
Li Maoye was not very concerned about this kind of thing. He thought it was better to open a company, and he didn't have to argue with a company like Penguin Ferry. He was most afraid of troublesome things.
It’s just that sometimes in the world, plans don’t always keep up with changes.
The "liquid cat" thrown by Li Maoye on the test platform soon spread in a small range, especially those circles specializing in compression algorithms. They were full of surprises about the anti-inflicted compression ratio reflected by this software!
"How exactly did this be done?"
"So terrible compression ratio, and lossless compression?"
"Looking at the software information, it seems that it is a software made by us Chinese, but when did our country besides such awesome programmers?"
Programmers in the circle were shocked by the "Liquid Cat". No matter what type of files they used to compress, the Liquid Cat could compress these files to less than one-tenth of their original volume, and sometimes even overwhelm it even to a smaller extent.
In order to test the compression limit of "Liquid Cat", a boring programmer first used compression software such as zip, rar and 7z to compress all the files, and then used the Liquid Cat to compress them. As a result, a surprising scene occurred. The Liquid Cat could further compress it based on the processing of other compression software!
It can also reduce the size of the type compressed file by 90%, and it can still be used after decompression without any errors!
What's even more terrifying is that the liquid cat can compress the files it has compressed again, which is also a compression ratio of 10 to 1, but when the secondary compression is completed, it will cause the computer CPU resource occupation to rise rapidly and the compression time to increase rapidly.
However, after the compressed file is decompressed twice, it can be restored to the original size file, which proves that the secondary compression is also successful!
"Can you still play like this? So can you continue to compress it?" the boring programmer thought.
So he really continued to compress the files that had been compressed twice with "Liquid Cat", and as a result, they could still be compressed three or four times, and the compression ratio was still as much as ten to one, which shows how terrifying this compression algorithm is.
However, with such repeated compression, the required CPU resources and time are increased geometrically. When the programmer compresses to the fifth time, the compression takes a very long time, and the machine is stuck and unable to move during the compression!
"If it was replaced with a supercomputer to compress it, I'm afraid it could be compressed!"
When the bored programmer published the test process and results online, it immediately attracted others' attention, and someone analyzed it below: "This proves that Liquid Cat uses a brand new algorithm, and it is far higher than that of other compression software algorithms! In theory, it can compress infinitely. If this algorithm can be published in the paper, I am sure the author will win the Fields Medal in 2022!"
"Did the person upstairs look too high on this algorithm?"
"That's right, how could the Fields Medal be so easy to win!"
"No, no, you really don't understand the practical significance of this infinite compression algorithm. If you just look at it to increase the lossless compression ratio to one tenth, it is indeed not a great thing. But once you understand that the difficulty of infinite compression is much more difficult than landing on the surface of the sun, you will understand why the algorithm author can win the Fields Award, which is definitely an epoch-making math award!"
"Bad! I don't believe this algorithm is that awesome!"
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Some people agree and some oppose it, but they all agree that the "Liquid Cat" can instantly kill all compression algorithms on the market, and its birth may be able to increase the level of human data compression by several levels.
Chapter completed!