Gaussian Distribution
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
We Live to Build 
the Knowledge Project 
the MAD Podcast
3 statements about Gaussian Distribution, every show
Reyes: Universal ChatGPT usage will eventually eliminate original human thought
“That there cannot be any more original thoughts because all thoughts are optimized to follow the Gaussian distribution because we are all using ChatGPT. So then like it's, we're just Sampling from the same distribution and there's no more creative people anymo…”
Parrish: Playing the middle in ideation limits outcomes to incremental success
“If you're stuck in that middle area, even if you're successful, you're only going to be incrementally successful. And if you're a failure, you're not going to be too far from success. So you're sort of like keeping yourself in this boundary where you can alway…”
SwiftKey's initial touch model used Gaussian distributions to map keypresses
“The system that we first built was to use Gaussian distributions to model the interaction of the person with the keyboard surface, and then we can use a linear Gaussian for the space bar, and the others are single point Gaussians.”