Video: The Gaussian Distribution

Ryan Adams · September 6, 2020

It's difficult to overstate the centrality of the Gaussian distribution to machine learning, statistics, and many other natural sciences. This video talks about some of the reasons this distribution is special. This is part of a series of videos for COS 302: Mathematics for Numerical Computation and Machine Learning, replacing lectures after the course went remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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