everything about statistics seems so sus - like law of large numbers, wtf? who's making that happen?
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it helped a lot for me to learn about large deviations inequalities. you can pretty precisely quantify how unlikely it is for a large number of iid samples from a distribution to deviate significantly from the original distribution. it’s wacky stuff
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this is the gateway drug but later you’ll want sanov’s theorem