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[woggie]

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Flumpy Level 1.0
Moments after waddling ashore from the ocean.

Comments

[gfish]

The graphs on the lower right and upper right plot the random variable X and the nonlinear function g, respectively. The density of the transformed random variable, Y = g(X), is indicated by the gray area in the upper left graph of Figure 3.3b. Since this density cannot be computed in closed form, it was estimated by drawing 500,000 samples according to p(x), passing them through the function g, and then histrogramming over the range of g. As can be seen, Y is not Gaussian because the nonlinearities in g distort the density of X in ways that destroy its Gaussian shape.

Probabilistic Robotics
Thrun, Burgard, Fox

[woggie]

I am so jealous that you understand that! :)

[gfish]

It makes a bit more sense when you can see the graph. :)

[woggie]

I'm glad you think so. :)

Damnit, the closest one is boring...

[thelala]

Here triangle ABC and triangle DEF are congruent if, for instance, they have equal corresponding sides - that is, the length of side AB = the length of side DE, the length of side BC = the length of side EF, and the length of side CA = the length of side FD.

I'd like to point out that the book didn't provide an illustration because the author is mean and horrible and kicks puppies.

Re: Damnit, the closest one is boring...

[woggie]

There are times when I could just hug you, and this is one of those times. :)

Re: Damnit, the closest one is boring...

[thelala]

That makes it better. :-)