
Episode 493: Ram Sriharsha on Vectors in Machine Learning
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Cosin Distance, Euclid Distance, and Chabishe Distance?
So can you give an example of maybe where one of these distance functions was inappropriate, or would be inappropriate, versus one which would be sort of more natural fit? Ye, take similaritys a good example. So depending on the properties of what you care about in terms of similarity, you may tend to choose cosandistance in some places verse iclidi. One more distance function i saw. I'm just curious if you know offhand where this would be used. Was the chabishe? We rarely see it, to be honest. But honestly, we don't see that too often. That particular metric avent encountered too often.
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