To be fair, it was a trivial result. If you start from some very deep theorems. :-)
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > >> I owe the IBM team my interest in statistical approaches to AI and >> symbolic >> sequences. It was on a visit to IBM in 1990 or so that Stephen (or >> Vincent) >> dP mentioned off-handedly to me that mutual information was "trivially >> known >> to be chi-squared distributed asymptotically". >> > > I love statements like these! Takes me back to the good old Math days of > "We'll leave it as an exercise to the reader" or proofs that start off by > saying "It is trivial to prove ..., so we'll proceed to the main part of the > proof" and, as a 20 year old Math student you spend the next day beating > your head against the wall because it is anything but trivial to you! > > -Grant > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
