QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷) on Twitter: "@lisatomic5 @the_aiju @visakanv oh this is a very good question! there’s already a similar pi that shows up in stirling’s formula and you can tie that one back to both the central limit theorem and the fourier transform. it’s the simplest “weird” appearance of pi i know" / Twitter

Sep 19, 2020

i'm going to bed but let's try and set up a game 1. reply with an interest, a picture, a quote, whatever – something random that you'd like to talk about with someone. ask a question, state an observation 2. reply to someone else in the replies enjoy your new friends

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@QiaochuYuan

Sep 20, 2020

anyone wanna talk about how applying the central limit theorem to a random walk in 2D reproduces the euclidean metric starting from a *grid* it’s fucked up and wrong and i’m still trying to figure out what it means

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@the_aiju

Sep 20, 2020

random walks have a funny habit of introducing square roots

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@lisatomic5

Sep 20, 2020

I asked a similar/relevant question on r/physics like a decade ago, IIRC there were some interesting answers: reddit.com/r/Physics/comm

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oh this is a very good question! there’s already a similar pi that shows up in stirling’s formula and you can tie that one back to both the central limit theorem and the fourier transform. it’s the simplest “weird” appearance of pi i know

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