[ithinkso]

> 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.

[adamgordonbell]

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

[fsckboy]

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.