What’s your favorite distribution and why? (This sounds silly but I bet some folks have great answers!)
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Replying to @generativist
Gonna go hipster and go with Cantor since it doesn't have a density and is majorly screwy but somehow still easy to sample from
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Replying to @alexpghayes @generativist
I tell people about the Lebesgue decomposition theorem surprisingly often: any measure can be decomposed into an absolutely continuous part, a discrete part, and a wacky part. You picked the wacky part!
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Replying to @colindcarroll @generativist
TIL about singular continuous measures I regret everything
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I usually list my (former) research as "geometric analysis and PDEs" rather than "measure theory" under the assumption that PDEs make me sound more fun.
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Replying to @dan_p_simpson @colindcarroll and
I’m not smart enough to follow you guys
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This one went well beyond the depth I was expecting for a twitter thread and I was genuinely surprised.
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