This is utterly wild... am I a little smooth-brained, or is this totally unrealistic?
- 200 Mbps compressed to under 1 Mbps
- Realtime, i.e: ~1ms latency or better
- Encode and transmit in <10mW (yes, including radio)
- Lossless
- High-entropy input
... if you succeed, just email them your solution - no mention of any reward or Nobel Prize nomination.
https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html
@attie I think that this would depend in there being significant patterns in the data that aren't identifiable by typical encoding schemes (eg LZW), which seems highly unlikely but not impossible for some types of data?
This is data sampled from some sort of sensors. It will have some sort of white-ish noise added to it, because a.o. the sensors quantize and if you are close to the boundary between 8 and 9 the choice of what the sensor emits can get arbitrarily sensitive. They are asking for lossless compression, so they are asking for that noise to be reproduced. That sounds totally impossible in the data rate described.
Or they were tired of opposing stupid ideas, so wanted to focus on opposing stupid ideas that have worse consequences.
@robryk @crschmidt @attie bailing at the high end of the Titanic, as it were.
@robryk @crschmidt @attie I went straight to "completely full of shit". I'm somewhat more interested in the process that let that ridiculous request ever see the light of day -- there must be somebody there who knows that this is flat impossible, and either they felt speaking up would not be a winning move, or they were overruled by fucking idiots, or they were excluded from any comment. Or maybe nobody there has any clues, really should list all the possibilities.