An N Simplex Is a Distribution on N Plus One Point.

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An n simplex is the set of all probability distributions on n elements. So in other words, when n is one, i have one element, and i need a number associated to that element that adds up to one negative,. Well, i only have one option, ok. One Nate be von tat ike, kind of boring. You know, that's my coffee scenario. I woke up this morning, i had coffee probability one. No, that's exactly what got me, like emily, what i think i thought i knew entropy, why ate connected all these things i and so one of the ideas, i think this is worth trying to explain, which is the idea

Mathematics is often thought of as the pinnacle of crisp precision: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle isn’t “roughly” the sum of the squares of the other two sides, it’s exactly that. But we live in a world of messy imprecision, and increasingly we need sophisticated techniques to quantify and deal with approximate statistical relations rather than perfect ones. Modern mathematicians have noticed, and are taking up the challenge. Tai-Danae Bradley is a mathematician who employs very high-level ideas — category theory, topology, quantum probability theory — to analyze real-world phenomena like the structure of natural-language speech. We explore a number of cool ideas and what kinds of places they are leading us to.

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Tai-Danae Bradley received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently a research mathematician at Alphabet, visiting research professor of mathematics at The Master’s University, and executive director of the Math3ma Institute. She hosts an explanatory mathematics blog, Math3ma. She is the co-author of the graduate-level textbook Topology: A Categorical Approach.

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