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Kindly comments on Should correlation coefficients be expressed as angles? - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: Sniffnoy 28 November 2012 12:05AM

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Comment author: Kindly 29 November 2012 05:38:15PM 2 points [-]

Your gut is right, both about the answer and about its proof (n+1 nonzero vectors, all at right angles to each other, always span an n+1-dimensional space). You should trust it more!

Comment author: Decius 30 November 2012 01:52:26AM 0 points [-]

I think that my 40% confidence basis for the very specific claim is proper. Typically I am wrong about three times out of five when I reach beyond my knowledge to this degree.

I was hoping that there would be some property true of 11-dimensional space (or whatever the current physics math indicates the dimensionality of meatspace is) that allows an arbitrary number of fields to fit.