Morendil comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong
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Intuitive answer:
Picture a horizontal line and points scattered around it. If there are many points, the line will be dark and there'll be a cloud around it. If there are few points, you'll get a vague shape and it won't be easy to tell where the line originally was.
Rigorous answer:
Thoughtful answer: Why would I bother thinking? Fetch me an apple.
Edit: For copulation's sake, whose kneecaps do I have to break to make Markdown leave my indentation the Christian Underworld alone, and who wrote those filthy blatant lies masquerading as comment formatting help?
For another intuitive answer, try lower values of 15, like 1.
The Python code works better, on my machine, if I add the line "from random import randint" at the top.