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by TimPC 1058 days ago
No one quantizes blindly without accounting for data. If 95% of your values are in 0-100 you’ll probably do something like have 20 values for 0-100 and the remaining 12 for 101-5000. You don’t have to apply a uniform distribution and shouldn’t when your data is that concentrated.
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Third paragraph.