Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: [Mathematics] [distance of one probability distribution to another] [statistical manifold]
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mapping high-dimensionality to low-dimensionality
Here is the link to a Wikipedia article in which this plays a major role. keywords: [Mathematics] [Sammon mapping] [preserving the structure of inter-point distances] [exploratory data analysis] [a non-linear approach] [a nonlinear approach] [square of differences] [iteration] [convergent solutions are not always guaranteed] [Bregman divergence]
Tragedy on the Thames – The Princess Alice Disaster
Here is the link to an article discussing this. (This happened in the year 1878. A similar thing happened on the Chicago River in the year 1915. Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on it.) keywords: [maritime disasters] [massive death] [drowning] [ship accident]
technical dissociations
The diagrams of the two cultures noted by C.P. Snow are the inverses of one another. On the humanities side, things come together as we progress, resulting in a pyramid (e.g., Maslow’s hierarchy of needs). On the technical side, things come apart as we progress (former synonyms no longer holding), resulting in an inverted pyramid. … Continue reading technical dissociations