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j_maffe
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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
> No one is claiming that time is a random variable drawn from a normal distribution.
You are doing that implicitly by fitting a Gaussian curve.
khalic
18 days ago
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Fitting a mathematical function to a dataset does not implicitly adopt the ontological baggage of probability theory. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of applied mathematics
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You are doing that implicitly by fitting a Gaussian curve.