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throw10920 on Aug 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

Don't most statistical techniques rely on specific structure in the spaces containing the objects they operate on, in order to be useful?

mkl on Aug 20, 2024 [–]

Embeddings have structure, or they wouldn't be very useful. E.g. cosine similarity works because (many) embeddings are designed to support it.

throw10920 on Aug 20, 2024 | [–]

Oh, that should have been obvious. Thank you for explaining.

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