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A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant
TurboQuant ([Zandieh et al. 2025](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874)) has been all the rage in the past two days, and I've seen lots of comments here attempting to explain the magic behind it. Many of those comments boil down to "dude, it's polar coordinates!!!", and that's really misleading. The mos
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A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant
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TurboQuant ([Zandieh et al. 2025](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874)) has been all the rage in the past two days, and I've seen lots of comments here attempting to explain the magic behind it. Many of those comments boil down to "dude, it's polar coordinates!!!", and that's really misleading. The mos