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profsummergigyesterday at 6:40 AM3 repliesview on HN

The human mind cannot comprehend the capacity of massively multidimensional space.

Just going from 2D to 3D creates massive new positional potential (e.g. surface of the earth, vs. the atmosphere above earth...).

Now imagine 1,000 dimensions.


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larodiyesterday at 7:36 AM

Imagine a box of balls. They have size, weight, colour, density… etc. These properties, each a measure, are dimensions and they are orthogonal to each other. Taken together are multi-dimensional.

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hliyanyesterday at 7:13 AM

This is nonsense. The human mind cannot visualize more than 3 dimensions. It can perfectly comprehend any number of dimensions as long as they are represented in a vector space. In fact, that's what linear algebra does.

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qserayesterday at 6:42 AM

>The human mind cannot comprehend the capacity of massively multidimensional space.

That is why the scam works, because investors are humans...

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