solipsist comments on Open thread, January 25- February 1 - Less Wrong

8 Post author: NancyLebovitz 25 January 2014 02:52PM

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Comment author: solipsist 25 January 2014 04:55:51PM *  3 points [-]

A different level explanation, which may or may not be helpful:

Read up on affine space, convex combinations, and maybe this article about torsors.

If you are frustrated with hand waving in calculus, read a Real Analysis textbook. The magic words which explain how the heck you can have a probability distributions over real numbers is measure theory.