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A comment on Principle of Maximum Entropy.

Re:Principle of Maximum Entropy by activatedgeek on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:31AM (#25643427)
I like the general treatment of constraints for continuous distributions.

I wrote an alternative derivation for the Gaussian as a maximum entropy distribution with finite variance here [1].

[1] https://im.perhapsbay.es/kb/the-gaussian-cheatsheet/#as-a-ma...

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Re:Principle of Maximum Entropy by ycreader on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:01PM (#25739112)
I don't get what the schur complement is for
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Re:Principle of Maximum Entropy by activatedgeek on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:55PM (#25830144)
That's a separate thing. I only meant to point to the heading "As a maximum entropy distribution".
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