alt.hn

4/20/2026 at 5:30:06 AM

Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/

by ganitam

4/21/2026 at 11:58:53 PM

Hasn't this been the case for a while? I vaguely remember using the optimal e8 packing to try to get denser product quantization for vector embeddings.

by Scene_Cast2

4/22/2026 at 12:32:03 AM

She proved it

by corndoge

4/22/2026 at 12:43:15 AM

How did you apply e8 to vector embeddings?

by wyndyl

4/22/2026 at 2:07:31 AM

Chunk up your 128D embedding into 16 8D pieces, then quantize using the optimal packing points. Performs worse than k-means in my experience.

by Scene_Cast2

4/22/2026 at 11:08:06 AM

Why is this downvoted? I think it is sincere.

by bananaflag

4/21/2026 at 11:33:10 PM

I always think its funny when someone says "I am a chair" and really means it

by semiinfinitely

4/22/2026 at 1:45:00 AM

I think it technically means they have a permanent endowed position.

by j7ake

4/22/2026 at 8:15:18 AM

Reminds me of an old 1990s/2000s post from News of the Weird [0] about endowed chairs with funny names, such as an XYZ Corn Chair at some midwestern US university, or an NEC/ Nippon Electric Chair at some Japanese university.

[0]: www.uexpress.com/oddities/news-of-the-weird/archives , can't find the exact citation.

by smcin

4/22/2026 at 3:38:30 AM

Ceci n'est pas une chaise

by semiinfinitely

4/21/2026 at 11:02:41 PM

Thank god i need to go rearrange the 8 dimensional cannonballs in the trunk of my car

by Kevcmk

4/22/2026 at 6:58:29 AM

Sphere packing in higher dimensions actually has some applications, for example in signal processing.

by karmakurtisaani