April 1 is back thataway
it seems it should be taken seriously. Here’s a tweet from Micron exec Rob Peglar
Argument by tweet? This has to be the weakest appeal to authority that I've seen in days.
Not that it would be persuasive anyway. Even if we believe Peglar, and consider him an authority (rather dubious, for technical questions), all he says is that he's "seen it". That's pretty much the weakest form of evidence after hearsay.
The patent claims quoted in the article sound like plain Huffman compression, or possibly Lempel-Ziv. Unless the patent goes on to say something far more radical, it's hard to see that there's anything at all interesting in it.
It somehow stores data in a shrunken form; deduplication is not mentioned and nor is compression.
That sentence is nonsense. Deduplication is a form of compression. Any "shrunken form" is a form of compression. That's what compression means.
At any rate, the claim made by the article headline is most definitely not supported by the body. There might be something to Symbolic IO, but everything described in the article sounds like snake oil.