{"id":2311,"date":"2019-09-02T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:56:51","slug":"feature-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/feature-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(looking at baby\/toddler photos a year apart)<\/em> \"How does he look so different and yet so the same at the same time?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Just in case that was non-rhetorical, the answer is that your brain evolved to be good at factorizing overall appearance into orthogonal 'personal appearance' and 'age appearance' dimensions that can be tracked separately, just as [<em>x<\/em>, <em>y<\/em>] = [1, 2] and [4, 2] are so different with respect to <em>x<\/em>, and yet so the same with respect to <em>y<\/em>, at the same time.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(looking at baby\/toddler photos a year apart) \"How does he look so different and yet so the same at the same time?\" \"Just in case that was non-rhetorical, the answer is that your brain evolved to be good at factorizing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/feature-reduction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}