some of the comments on this article are so embarrassing. It's just a short and clearly written article on a pretty simple and fundamental type of problem in information theory. Similar ideas are the basis for the systems we use in data compression and transmission and error correction among other things.
Maybe better to think for a few seconds before dismissing the problem as pointless and claiming to hate it.
True - I misread your post. Your first post was intriguing but the second was dismissive. Surely there's more to be said than data sets are point clouds? Images are points in R^N too, right?
Remember when people claimed that the bitcoin block size couldn't be increased because we would sacrifice decentralization? Well look where we are now...
I bought my headphones (Audio Technica ATH-AD700s) when I was in school. I still use them now and they sound just as good as anything else you could buy.
Not quite generational inheritance but I can't think of anything else I bought back then that I still use. It's pretty satisfying when I think about it.
In addition to all those negatives, they don't do much help either. As if a phone call to a stranger will make any difference to someone who's contemplating suicide.
Maybe better to think for a few seconds before dismissing the problem as pointless and claiming to hate it.