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Understanding Gaussians

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112 points lapnect | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 07:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hughw ◴[22 Oct 24 14:42 UTC] No.41914792[source]▶
Gaussian, Gaussian, Gaussian. Important to understand Gaussians, but also to recognize how profoundly non-Gaussian, in particular multimodal, the world is. And to build systems that navigate and optimize over such distributions.

(Not complaining about this article, which is illuminating).

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1. slashdave ◴[22 Oct 24 15:56 UTC] No.41915593[source]▶
There was an opportunity when heights of soldiers were discussed. Gaussians have infinite extent, but soldier heights must be positive.
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2. hughw ◴[22 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41915617[source]▶
Good example