Monday, July 21, 2014
0 and 1 are probabilities.
That shocking title is, amazingly, controversial outside the statistics and mathematics community. I think it was a computer "scientist" who said implied otherwise, or, at least, a hobbyist in the field. If you ever run into somebody saying something so transparently false, run. Don't walk.
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No one who has ever used a rand() function could ever say such a thing. I mean, these are the terms in which probability is defined, come on. What was the original context?
In the end, it was an argument with the guy who writes (More or) Less Wrong. If you want to read the original source, which is like having somebody masturbate into your mouth, read here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/
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