yo it's been almost a year since neuralink posted their absurdly, comically impossible compression "challenge" and the leaderboard is still just the zip benchmark 🤐 https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112497480518816033

also before you @ me, please take note that the wording of the original challenge is highly prone to inducing mental glitches where people think it says something only kind of bonkers instead of the absolutely astonishingly bonkers thing it does actually say

@0xabad1dea this is like inspired by the middle out compression scheme from Silicon Valley or something

@0xabad1dea even though they want it to have 1:200 ratio with 1 ms latency, they don't require that for the challenge. So just encode those WAV files with FLAC to get on the leaderboard with no effort.

@sixohsix they've almost certainly gotten dozens if not hundreds of meaningless submissions like that.

@0xabad1dea If it was this easy it would have been done decades ago.

@0xabad1dea maybe it's actually an AES-CTR stream! Then you could compress it to just 32 bytes!

@0xabad1dea one would think that people that are highly professional in what they do generally don't respond to unpaid challenges to "if you want to be one of the cool kids, do this here, right now", and people who do things on research grants will have things to do that actually are interestingly close to possible.

and one would be right thinking that…

@0xabad1dea @catsalad It reminds me of the old Amiga joke 'gzus' compression app which could shrink any file to 32 bytes.

At first glance it seemed to work, but all it did was hide the original and create a 32-byte file that pointed to the hidden file. The decompressor unhid the original and deleted the .gzus file.