Solving a Big Data Conjecture

Interesting, but technical:  " ... A mathematical problem related to big data was solved by Jean-Francois Puget, engineer in the Solutions Analytics and Optimization group at IBM France. The problem was first mentioned on Data Science Central, and an award was offered to the first data scientist to solve it. ...  " ... You can find details about the competition, the result proved by Jean-Francois (including the proof), the new metrics used for big data, the advantages of these metrics, and the curse of big data at http://bit.ly/133S6ns . ... "