maybe the complex distribution of "looks like a galaxy" images just isn't that overwhelmingly complex, relative to how cheap computation & storage is nowadays.

maybe the complex distribution of "looks like a galaxy" images just isn't that overwhelmingly complex, relative to how cheap computation & storage is nowadays. what surprises me is how these techniques can structure the space of compressed representations in interesting ways. look at this discussion of thought vectors: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/541356/king-man-woman-queen-the-marvelous-mathematics-of-computational-linguistics/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/541356/king-man-woman-que...