Yeah, but the thing is, gzip isn't "these days". It was a thing long before UMAP and even MNIST itself. And the approach isn't perticulary novel too, this is a

Yeah, but the thing is, gzip isn't "these days". It was a thing long before UMAP and even MNIST itself. And the approach isn't perticulary novel too, this is a very simple idea, if you do understand compression. It could've been written the first day MNIST was published, and it would be still 78% accuracy. This is kinda amazing to me.