Though this might seem esoteric, this phenomena has practical applications. In the vector space model of information retrieval, documents are modeled as points on a high-d sphere, where d is the size of the vocabulary.
So unless one accounts for these effects, there will be fascinating surprises.
Though this might seem esoteric, this phenomena has practical applications. In the vector space model of information retrieval, documents are modeled as points on a high-d sphere, where d is the size of the vocabulary.
So unless one accounts for these effects, there will be fascinating surprises.