Re:Kalman Filter Explained Simply
by shiandow on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:34PM
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Unecessary use of mathematical notation / terminology definitely happens. It's one of the things that annoy me to no end. Especially if after unwrapping the unintelligible mess of mathematical gibberish you're left with some inane argument.
I still haven't quite forgiven the writers of UMAP for writing a theorem that uses pi^n/2 / Gamma(n/2+1) instead of the more reasonable "volume of the unit sphere". It makes it so confusing that they fail to spot the theorem doesn't work for low dimensional objects embedded in high dimensional spaces, which is their exact use-case. Luckily their informal conclusion does work, mostly.
I still haven't quite forgiven the writers of UMAP for writing a theorem that uses pi^n/2 / Gamma(n/2+1) instead of the more reasonable "volume of the unit sphere". It makes it so confusing that they fail to spot the theorem doesn't work for low dimensional objects embedded in high dimensional spaces, which is their exact use-case. Luckily their informal conclusion does work, mostly.