[AnotherGoodName]

It's part of learning. Over excited and some guidance would be helpful but it's learning. He's reinvented an octagonal wheel and we're now able to explain to him 'good start, see this round wheel (arithmetic encoding) over here? it's even better!'.

[gliptic]

It's easy to see this octogonal wheel [rolling downhill] is faster than this round wheel [on a flat plain]!