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A Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions | long intuition

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Imagine you wake up tomorrow in an empty white room, a la The Matrix. You don’t remember how you got there. Anything can happen.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow in an empty white room, a la The Matrix. You don’t remember how you got there. Anything can happen. If Keanu Reeves appears, you’d probably think this is related in some way to the Matrix. If Keanu appears and then Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus) appears, you’d think—okay, this is almost definitely related to the Matrix. On the other hand, if Obama and Clinton appear in your white room, in your head, you’d think, okay, the Matrix-related possibilities are less likely; the politics-related possibilities are more likely, whatever those are. For the first few seconds in

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