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amitport on Jan 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-d...

Which distance would you chose? And to what purpose?

f0xtrot on Jan 17, 2022 [–]

how many vectors are needed to conclude the distance of point A to point B in the 8th dimension? does it remain constant?

amitport on Jan 18, 2022 | [–]

Sorry, I don't follow your point.

What do you mean by "Needed" vectors? Distances are generally scalars, no?

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