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Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Zeta Distribution

This is actually a good distribution for a lot of theoretical problems that come up, I found. Even if you put like 99% in terms of the first one to the second one, it shrinks very small. At some point, it gets very tiny. And all of your everything you draw from that distribution is kind of low. Whereas this distribution, if you have an exponent that's close to one, you could end up with some really high numbers. Things really out in left field.

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