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What is the curse of dimensionality, and how does it affect ML?

High-dimensional data breaks the intuitions and methods that work in two or three dimensions. The signal is naming the concrete effects (distances concentrate, data goes sparse, overfitting climbs) and the mitigations that actually move the needle.

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High-dimensional data breaks the intuitions and methods that work in two or three dimensions. The signal is naming the concrete effects (distances concentrate, data goes sparse, overfitting climbs) and the mitigations that actually move the needle.

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