i have put MacKay on my to do list, thank you i was quite struck when i learned the original Lempel Ziv compression (which gzip is partly based on) came out of

i have put MacKay on my to do list, thank you i was quite struck when i learned the original Lempel Ziv compression (which gzip is partly based on) came out of their study of the "complexity of finite sequences" not necessarily trying to shrink things, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1055501 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1055501