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Ep. 247 - Twitter, Paypal, and Ukraine (Musk's World)

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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How to Make a Probability Distribution Out of the Harmonic Series

The harmonic sequence does not converge. So you can make a non standard probability distribution from it. The first way to fix it is to chop it off at some point. And then if you want infinite to work, which we'll deal with another time, you could take the denominator to some kind of exponent.

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