Blitzograms - Interactive Histograms
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You probably know how to ride a bicycle, but would you even recognize the equations of bicycle motion? The equations are clearly not necessary for riding a bike, but are they sufficient? Suppose, that upon seeing your first bicycle, you had derived the equations of motion from scratch, starting with F=ma. Would you shout “Eureka” then jump on and start riding? No, the equations of motion are irrelevant to riding a bicycle. Designing a bicycle maybe, but riding one, no way. We learn to ride through interactions with bicycles using our hands and the seats of our pants. Michael Polanyi (1983) has referred to this as tacit learning as opposed to the formal learning required to understand equations. I will demonstrate below, a path toward gaining a tacit understanding of the concept of probability distributions.
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