On: Have You Tried Using a Nearest Neighbor Search?

[wodenokoto]

In the statistical learning course available online as a mooc at stanford they take it a step further:

"If it wasn't for the course of dimensionality we would only use nearest neighbor search"

[infodroid → wodenokoto]

> the course of dimensionality

dimensionality is surely a curse :)

[arcanus → wodenokoto]

In my field you could state that if it was not for the curse of dimensionality, we would use anything but MCMC.