Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: fountain-0.0.0

1. Wow that's cool.

Indeed.

2. Is this technology not patented by Digital Fountain?  (now Qualcomm?)

I'm sure it is. This library is a naive implementation of LT codes, which have nowhere near the performance of Digital Fountain's Raptor codes.

I remember when I first heard of fountain codecs, I thought it was science fiction based on the description :-).

What I find amazing is RaptorQ fountain codes can complete the decoding after receiving only 1% more symbols than the original message. -Tom