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j_maffe 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

> No one is claiming that time is a random variable drawn from a normal distribution.

You are doing that implicitly by fitting a Gaussian curve.

khalic 69 days ago [–]

Fitting a mathematical function to a dataset does not implicitly adopt the ontological baggage of probability theory. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of applied mathematics

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