Previous, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 http

Previous, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 Neal Gershenfeld's book on mathematical modelling (from 15 years ago) mentions that points in distributions/objects in higher dimensions are always close to the surface -- as dimensionality increases, the degree of bulk and interior space goes away.