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> Also, it turns out that this area was already well understood. There are no free lunches with entropy.

If I ever go mad and I breach the 'crankpot line' this will be it. There is something in entropy that I just can't fully grasp even though I understand (or I can convince myself that I do) Shannon, Kolmogorov etc.

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I hear the compression tends to attract lots of 'out of the box' thinkers. So you'll have company.

technically "outside the box," meaning "their creativity is expansive, not within the narrow confines of a box".

"out of the box" means works right away, as soon as you take it out of the box, no assembly required.

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