That link has a couple of sentences about “maximum entropy models” and no references. From a quick search it seems that this is a terminology used in some areas

That link has a couple of sentences about “maximum entropy models” and no references. From a quick search it seems that this is a terminology used in some areas thought. It’s not yet completely clear to me what does it mean. (Seems to be about the Ising model which is selected from a large set of ‘similar” Ising models; I would think of “Ising model” as the general thing.) Statistical mechanical entropy is information entropy (and related to thermodynamical entropy). From the link: “The principle was first expounded by E. T. Jaynes in two papers in 1957[1][2] where he emphasized a natural correspondence between statistical mechanics and information theory. In particular, Jaynes offered a new and very general rationale why the Gibbsian method of statistical mechanics works. He argued that the entropy of statistical mechanics and the information entropy of information theory are basically the same thing. Consequently, statistical mechanics should be seen just as a particular application of a general tool of logical inference and information theory.” Simplicity is a relative thing, I guess. Let’s say the interestingness/complexity ratio is high.