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Toward a statistical mechanics of four letter words
Greg J. Stephens, William Bialek
We consider words as a network of interacting letters, and approximate the probability distribution of states taken on by this network. Despite the intuition that the rules of Engl…
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Field Theories for Learning Probability Distributions
William Bialek, Curtis G. Callan, S. P. Strong
Imagine being shown samples of random variables drawn independently from the same distribution. What can you say about the distribution? In general, of course, the answer is no…