Not necessarily, sometimes dimensionality reduction (the more common terminology used, for what is basically compression) is the explicit goal.

Can be used for outlier detection, similarity search, etc.

During training, you find a projection of the input, for example an image, to a smaller space, and then back to the original image. This is referred to as encoding and decoding. The error fuction would be a measure of how similar the in- and output images are.

AI does work like that.

With (variational) auto-encoders, it’s very explicit.

With shallow convolutional neural networks, it’s fun to visualize the trained kernel weights, as they often return an abstract, to me dreamlike, representations of the thing being trained for. Although derived through a different method, search for “eigenfaces” as an example of what I mean.

In the recent hype model architecture, attention and transformers, the encoded state can be thought of as a compressed version of it’s input. But human interpretation of those values is challenging.

Is it an albini or a species?

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Is that a problem?

It’s not an elementary question.

Best I can guess is: plenty of people, plenty of reasons. Which is a stupid answer.

It’s not sufficient, but it is necessary

It certainly helps a lot!

But again, there’s something different about them. that made them different from many others from a similar start.

Wonder what it could be

You can have a phone and a vape. Double pleasure.

I like Xubuntu. But I’ve no experience on how well it does with touch screens.

I’ve met people who don’t know what a URL is.

The kind of people that google “facebook” when they want to visit facebook.

Completely flabbergasted that we run internal services not indexable by google.

I didn’t do no nothing wrong now, didn’t I?

“Solidarity” as it’s too often used to make others do things you want.

Had the same issue with outlook last weeks. 60% CPU usage, doing nothing.

Slaves didn’t own slaves

You need to own stuff that others value

Plenty of people in that situation who aren’t Bezos rich, no?

Makes me think that explanation isn’t sufficient.

Why’s that?

Same. There’s no gold standard, money is a social construct.

I wonder if the people who think like this, also assume “if bezos had less money, I’d have more”.

If you already have enough money to burn, you can put money into various high risk areas and win overall.

That’s the angel investor strategy.

There’s also lower risk index funds, that simply invest in the biggest N companies.

15 year olds would be my guess