[sigstoat]

at that point most things are compressed decision trees.

[TeMPOraL]

Possibly related: learning is isomorphic to compression, and the two may be in fact fundamentally the same thing.

[mncharity]

Oh, wow. I'd long thought of my own learning as "when reality surprises, isn't merely what you'd expect, isn't "obvious", then fix that, with emphasis on simplicity and generality". I'd not recognized that as compression. Tnx!