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VKS comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: VKS 24 March 2012 09:43:58PM 0 points [-]

What I meant by that is that distributions of other distributions are the sort of thing you would kind of expect to be incredibly impractical to use, but also could have some handy mathematical ways to look at them. Since I am unfamiliar with the formalisms involved, I was wondering if anybody could enlighten me.