Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)
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corndoge
She proved it
wyndyl
How did you apply e8 to vector embeddings?
Scene_Cast2
Chunk up your 128D embedding into 16 8D pieces, then quantize using the optimal packing points. Performs worse than k-means in my experience.
bananaflag
Why is this downvoted? I think it is sincere.
semiinfinitely
I always think its funny when someone says "I am a chair" and really means it
j7ake
I think it technically means they have a permanent endowed position.
smcin
Reminds me of an old 1990s/2000s post from News of the Weird [0] about endowed chairs with funny names, such as an XYZ Corn Chair at some midwestern US university, or an NEC/ Nippon Electric Chair at some Japanese university.
[0]: www.uexpress.com/oddities/news-of-the-weird/archives , can't find the exact citation.
semiinfinitely
Ceci n'est pas une chaise
Kevcmk
Thank god i need to go rearrange the 8 dimensional cannonballs in the trunk of my car
karmakurtisaani
Sphere packing in higher dimensions actually has some applications, for example in signal processing.
Hasn't this been the case for a while? I vaguely remember using the optimal e8 packing to try to get denser product quantization for vector embeddings.