MEDICINE & ENTROPY
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 26, 2024
I keep insisting on asymmetries from using wrong reference base.
"Sedentary bt healthy" as control gets different results from using "environmentally fit" (10-15 h of exercise).
Like K-L divergence which is never symmetric.
Why?
"Sedentary healthy" has many… https://t.co/XwUCfmucgJ pic.twitter.com/f6X2peaqKr
2/ The Kullbacl-Leibner divergence is simply the relative distance between indiv* A and indiv B using the traits of B as baseline.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 26, 2024
*Or population pic.twitter.com/s4STaTYwFn