To be said another way: certainly you can figure out a compression algorithm for any one set of data by being clever and taking your time, but that algorithm wi

To be said another way: certainly you can figure out a compression algorithm for any one set of data by being clever and taking your time, but that algorithm will not apply to a general case and would be worthless. If you go about finding patterns in a random string it is unlikely that another random string will have those patterns.