Sorry if my comment came off as dismissive of the post! I was just trying to frame the results for those unfamiliar with the properties of MNIST. I think it is

Sorry if my comment came off as dismissive of the post! I was just trying to frame the results for those unfamiliar with the properties of MNIST. I think it is indeed interesting as it shows that Gzip can capture the same things that e.g. UMAP et co. are capturing when they acheive good scores on MNIST. Also, I'll add, that even despite some of the suspicions people have cast on the Gzip results in other experiments, I'm bullish on the utility of reducing entropy for classification problems.