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Totally agree with the thrust of this article, but wonder a bit about some details and the LLMs. Will look into measure of distance for vectors of binary or categorical (discrete) values.

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The problem is that only the distance "is it the same thing or not?" makes sense. That is, there is no concept of "closer"/"further" that would make sense. And the use of meaningless one leads, of course, to nonsense.

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