Re:Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles
by ks1723 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:03PM
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What i found quite surprising in that context, is that the volume of the n-dimensional ball for any finite fixed radius goes to zero as n goes to infinity (see, for example, section "high dimensions" of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball)
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Re:Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles
by cs702 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:13PM
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There are multiple good (intuitive) explanations for this here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/67039/why-does-volu...