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Concentration of measure. If you have a quantity that depends on a large number of random variables but not too strongly on any small subset of them, it tends to behave like a constant. That's the intuition behind the law of large numbers, the central limit theorem, a bunch of concentration inequalities, and model averaging.
parent joker3 6 years ago

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