Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · Mar 12 The wavelet basis functions one gets from Daubechies’s lifting schemes make *no sense* and are eldritch horrors. It’s the best example I know of beautiful math generating horrible functions. Look at D4:
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Like, weierstrass and cantor were trying to summon shoggoths, that was their whole schtick. The wavelets are just over here going “wouldn’t it be cool to have a continuous self similar set of functions to find features in your signals? Isn’t it neat how you can prove the existence of… AHhHh