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In high dimensions, quantities you'd expect to spread out widely instead pile up tightly around their average, the same fact that makes big averages reliable also makes high-dimensional geometry deeply unintuitive.
When you have more candidate features than observations, ordinary regression doesn't just get noisier, it stops having a unique answer at all, and that changes everything about how you have to estimate.
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