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Re:Organizing the world of fonts with AI by halflings on Saturday April 29, 2017 @10:43AM (#14226791)
What is being learned is an embedding (lower-dimension representation) that generalises well enough to group "similar" fonts together.

Both dimensionality reduction and clustering are important parts of machine learning: even if some of the dimensionality reduction might be 100% mathematical, most of the recent ones involve statistics and some engineering, hence being included under the ML umbrella.

Re:Organizing the world of fonts with AI by Eridrus on Saturday April 29, 2017 @08:48PM (#14229616)
T-SNE doesn't learn an embedding or generalise at all. There is no way to add new points to his plot without running the entire T-SNE algorithm again from scratch.

Though who even cares if it is AI or not, it's new and looks useful.