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6 Post author: Gondolinian 26 January 2015 12:46AM

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Comment author: one_forward 02 February 2015 07:34:51PM 0 points [-]

A note on notation - [0,1] with square brackets generally refers to the closed interval between 0 and 1. X is a continuous variable, not a boolean one.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 February 2015 09:43:40PM *  1 point [-]

Actually, I should have been using curly brackets, as when I wrote (0,1) I meant the set with two elements, 0 and 1, which is what I had taken X to be a product of copies of, hence my obtaining 50000 as the expected Manhattan distance between any two members. I'll correct the post to make that clear. I think everything I said would still apply to the continuous case. If it doesn't, that would be better addressed with a separate comment.

Comment author: one_forward 04 February 2015 08:34:14PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I don't think it makes much difference in high-dimensions. It's just more natural to talk about smoothness in the continuous case.