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Comment by armcat

Wonderful article, going from random walk to a Gaussian distribution. As an aside, I feel that normal distribution is way overused in practical contexts (apart from explaining Brownian motion, heights of people, and some other interesting observations). Heavy-tailed distributions that follow pareto or power-law, tend to be closer to actual reality, on many phenomena.
parent armcat 25 days ago

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