{"id":962,"date":"2013-05-06T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:34:37","slug":"dimensionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/dimensionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimensionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;So, an engineer and a mathematician are leaving a lecture. The engineer says, 'I just don't understand how you can visualize objects in seven-dimensional space.' The mathematician says, 'Oh, that's easy. You just visualize the <em>n<\/em>-dimensional case, and then set <em>n<\/em> equal to seven.'&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I've never liked that joke. The punchline is intended to be absurd, but it's <em>not<\/em>: that's actually how you do it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Really?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Okay, fine. You visualize the three-dimensional case, and then set three equal to seven.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;So, an engineer and a mathematician are leaving a lecture. The engineer says, 'I just don't understand how you can visualize objects in seven-dimensional space.' The mathematician says, 'Oh, that's easy. You just visualize the n-dimensional case, and then set &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/dimensionality\/\">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":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}