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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by IIAOPSW on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:12PM (#36182404)
Yeah, real humans see with a fourier transform in a highly optimized basis for projecting 3d down to the 2d retina. Not cold soulless math like those machines!

http://www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/publications/01-3.pdf

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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by goldenkey on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:50AM (#36184876)
Much hardware and software for codecs use wave basis as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform

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