About fickleness... indeed i've found this a kinda problematic thing when running large-d text embeddings through umap -- it always comes out spherical, blob-sh

About fickleness... indeed i've found this a kinda problematic thing when running large-d text embeddings through umap -- it always comes out spherical, blob-shaped, without any obvious segregation in the low-d projected space. IMO it's very difficult to make a "fire and forget" embedding interpreter. Maybe I never found the right parameters to umap but the results of running it (or any dimension reduction algo) always left me a bit underwhelmed.