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"To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly." -- Geoff Hinton
by joeyo 10y ago
"To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly." -- Geoff Hinton
- bitL 10y agoA math student and an engineering student went together to a presentation called "14-dimensional space topology". As the presentation progressed, engineering student became more and more frustrated as she could only grasp a few simple initial examples but the deeper the presentation went, the worse was the understanding. Yet the math student was absolutely enthusiastic, often asking the presenter various complicated questions and looking he enjoyed himself a lot. With a massive headache in the end, the engineering student turned to math student and asked: "How could you understand the presentation? I was able to understand 2D, 3D but once we increased number of dimensions I got lost and never understood anything about 14D!" The math student looked at her with a confident careless look and said: "It was simple. I imagined everything in N dimensions, and then just reduced it to 14".
- wnoise 10y ago"and then let N=14" is how I've heard it.