> I thought it was implicit from my explanation that the "works at all" includes the fact that the data sizes are reasonable already. Right, but why is that im

> I thought it was implicit from my explanation that the "works at all" includes the fact that the data sizes are reasonable already. Right, but why is that impressive if it doesn't actually result in a good reconstruction? I can take any collection of numbers and summarize it with the mean value, that doesn't imply that averaging is a good compression method. If you consider this proof of concept, then what, exactly, concept does it prove? That statistics can represent a dataset?