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evnixlast Monday at 7:31 PM1 replyview on HN

The name itself is confusing to begin with.

I come across reduce once in a few months, then I think it's a neat trick and a nice to have function.

then I forget it's even available and don't ever use unless these days LLM brings it up again.


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bjournetoday at 7:03 PM

It's because it reduces data dimensionality. From 2d to 1d and from 1d to 0d (scalar).

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