From: ted.dunning@gmail.com   
      
   rif wrote:   
      
   > ... I would certainly not expect to find a rule of thumb that   
   > told me, knowing nothing about the problem, how much data I needed   
   > with respect to the dimensionality.   
      
   I would go further than that and say that there is likely to be a proof   
   that, knowing nothing, you probably can't say much about this.   
   No-free-lunch and all that stuff.   
      
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