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Re:How to Think about Correlation? by ur-whale on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:57AM (#25356058)
> And it turns out that a strong positive correlation can be a good place to hunt for possible causality

I don't disagree, but I have yet to see a mathematically clean definition of "causality".

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Re:How to Think about Correlation? by lordnacho on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:34AM (#25356239)
Do you take issue with Pearl?
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Re:How to Think about Correlation? by ur-whale on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:16AM (#25357458)
Didn't know about Pearl. Will dive in now, thank you.

His intro to the topic bodes well: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/why.html

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Re:How to Think about Correlation? by mensetmanusman on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:04PM (#25361523)
That’s interesting, because causality requires time for the entropy engine to move our reality forward.

It’s not clear to me whether mathematical axioms would be outside of entropy driven time, or if the mere presence of operators in sequence requires entropy change to transmit the information and move the calculation forward.

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