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Ep. 270 - Exciting and Terrifying: NYT Podcast Trashing, GPT4, and Bank Runs

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Exponential Distribution

Exponential distribution is a very good prior for rate I don't have a good example other than if you know the probability of something kind of decays as you go further and further into the future then Exp exponential distribution is probably a good one in fact. Let's say you don't even know what the half-life For a particle is maybe you even want to use an exponential distribution to or or or Actually an exponential distribution you know what thehalf-life is but you want to kind of Kind of see how long that particle is gonna last it might might be look something like that That could end up being a different distribution, but I'm pretty sure there's an exponential distribution in there somewhere

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