Curse of Dimensionality

Post date: Apr 08, 2014 3:31:39 PM

Have you thought about dimensions in your life? or have you considered more than three dimensions? try to comprehend a dimension of four! they say time is the fourth dimension. But usually we don't have a clear understanding on the non-spatial dimensions. The point is that it's just a dimension, it does not necessarily mean that it has to be spatial dimension. It can be temporal dimension. It can be a mixture of temporal and spatial dimensions. It can be related to any other concept in physics or chemistry. 

I saw this term, the "curse of dimensionality" a few times back and it amazed me how they have utilized the non-technical informal term 'curse' in the arena of statistics! Then I went on and read upon it and realized that there might be even hundreds or thousands of dimensions, and who know what is going to happen in such a black hole of dimension so dense that engross all your knowledge and understanding whatsoever. 

Who knows how it could be to be in another dimension, like another parallel universe let's say. Hypotheses we make and we keep ourselves wondering about various subjects and we raise issues and we try to solve the problems we made ourselves. Anyhow, in any case, it's life and full of mysteries, either in our dimension or in a dimension where everything is cursed.