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Re:Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles by paulgb on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:00AM (#15676590)
It's true! I just made a colab notebook to visualize the effect: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1znFHwemxa...

(seems to require a Google account, sorry in advance)

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Re:Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles by semi-extrinsic on Saturday November 11, 2017 @01:51PM (#15677532)
Instead of plotting the cumulative mass distribution, why not just plot the mass distribution itself? I.e. the derivatives of the curves you've plotted?
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Re:Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles by tomas_fiers on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:01PM (#15677582)
Great, thanks!
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