[Lerc]

Yeah, it's a bit hard to describe what it happening, because the process doesn't really have a human analogue.

People have a difficult enough time dealing with how loss reduction learning is or isn't 'seeing' the data. Selectively removing things from the loss while sill feeding it all the data takes the non-intuitive situation one layer deeper.

That's partially why I described the hash & masking process. I understand it from a formulaic approach but I don't really feel like I have have a good handle of what is happening semantically. It's like thinking in 5D, you can do the calculations but it still feels like your brain is not equipped to deal with what it means.