good pedantry https://t.co/DwZBl7P4rk
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I just can't grok this yet, I ran into it in a textbook and it still confuses the hell out of me
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Replying to @selentelechia
so just imagine a uniform distribution between eg 0 and 1 you make one draw from that distribution Say you get 0.728502174 The probability of getting a value in a given range is the area under the pdf for that range Area under a curve at a point when the curve is finite is 0
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Replying to @eigenrobot @selentelechia
So, the probability of any particular draw is zero under a continuous distribution, but conditional on pdf(X) > 0 it's still possible
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Replying to @eigenrobot @selentelechia
the solution is that reality is discrete
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot
So the "continuous" aspect is an...approximation? pardon lack of vocabulary here
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real numbers are bullshit, that's the take away you should take from this
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virgin ℜ vs chad ℑ
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Replying to @eigenrobot @granderojo and
What about if you have Dirac delta in the pdf?
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