akin to a nearest neighbor and what you see here those of you black areas are the minima centered on the prototypes ok so KB's just put you know prototypes more or less equally distant over the many fold it looks great in two dimensions and how dimension k-means really doesn't work that well but what's interesting about those both of those cases is that they work because the capacity the volume of the white space that can take low energy is limited okay that's a key concept or you talked about the maximum likelihood so I'm going to