compression into the original alright so why do we care well you could save time you could save bandwidth over communications channel you could save space when you're storing it so many reasons you might care about this from the AI point of view and part of why it's interesting for this class is that often the ability to compress data reflects understanding of the data by the system that compressed the data so if you throw this in that's really by compressing data that means that system somehow has absorbed an understanding of