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What does become weird?
by kgwgk 5y ago
What does become weird?
- nabla9 5y agoConsider normal distribution. n-dimensional vectors with independent N(0,1) with expectation 0. When n increases the mass of the probabilities are around a sphere of radius n^0.5, nowhere near the origin.
- kgwgk 5y agoTrue, a huge volume with low density will contain more mass than a small volume with large density. But we can say that it gets “concentrated” far from the origin only in the same sense that Japan’s population is “concentrated” outside of Tokio…