A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
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HN comment order> A very pretty structure emerges; this might be spurious in that it captures more about the layout algorithm than any "true" structure of numbers. What would it look like if we used PCA rather than UMAP? PCA is simpler than UMAP, so it's in some sense "less arbitrary". If the image is similar then we know we're seeing something about numbers rather than about our methods.
According to Dmitry Kobak, some details in these figures are merely convergence artifacts, and no longer produced when using more recent versions of UMAP. https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1318917878364672001?l...
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2018-08-22 | A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integersFirst breakout · Best thread | fanf2 | 438 | 59 |
| 2020-10-08 | What do numbers look like? | frisco | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-11-13 | What do numbers look like?Latest 20+ point return | xqcgrek2 | 213 | 53 |
| 2024-11-12 | What do numbers look like? | metadat | 2 | 0 |