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epistasisyesterday at 9:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Anybody working in the field will be very familiar with these concepts.


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laroditoday at 7:15 AM

…for years. Because it is so apparent if you actually try to look at the problem and what is being solved by it.

The extraction of features from a corpus, the features significant to certain solution, is always and since day zero - compression. As this is the definition of compression - efficient and potentially lossless feature extraction.