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New essay: The Gaussian soap bubble

A short essay on one of my favorite stats fun facts: a high-dimensional isotropic Gaussian puts almost all of its probability mass in a thin spherical shell centered on the mean, even though its density is highest at the mean itself.

Read it here: The Gaussian soap bubble.

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