Yes.  This (tends to) scatter the vectors into many directions.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote:

> Each dimension subtracts the mean of that dimension across all vectors?
>
> On 4/25/11, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes.  Mean subtraction would do the trick.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> > It may be that in practice that SVD will scatter data into many
> >> > orthants,
> >> > but I suspect it will not spread the data as widely as LSH assumptions
> >> > would
> >> > like.
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe you're right - raw SVD vs PCA (where the means are also subtracted
> >> off) is probably the distinction to draw here.
> >
>
>
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