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Recent Examples on the Web In the ‘pick-a-number between one and ten’ game there was actually an implicit assumption about the probability of each message occurring - about the probability distribution of the message space. — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 Climate is the probability distribution of weather: the chance of heat and cold waves, floods, fires, and so forth. — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2021 As the Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan pointed out, at its heart was the use of argmax, a mathematical function that selects the most likely output from a probability distribution. — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 Used in cases where there are many different possible outcomes, a Monte Carlo simulation builds up a picture of the probability distribution of the possible scenarios. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2021 Namely, that the probability distribution for all possible answers was uniform. — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 But once confronted with the probability distribution for survival, the human spirit may choose to defy all odds and behave as a statistical outlier. — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 12 May 2021 That means that many of its properties aren’t exactly determined, but rather have a probability distribution to them. — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021 Sycamore calculated the probability distribution by sampling the circuit—running it one million times and measuring the observed output strings. — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2019 See More

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