How Learning Is Information Compression

You could learn that imagine that somebody didn't know anything about Chinese surnames or about Russian surnames at the beginning what they could do is that gradually they might be exposed to these surnames. and then looking it up in their memory thinking about whether it's in one group or the other on the other hand you might end up with some heuristics like well if it ends in ski it's probably Russian right? You only need a few rules you can write that down on the back of an envelope and you already have something that is gonna work like well over 90% of the timelike way way over 90% is gonna work so what you've done is you've compressed from having

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