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Comment by j_maffe

20 hours ago

> No one is claiming that time is a random variable drawn from a normal distribution.

You are doing that implicitly by fitting a Gaussian curve.

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khalic  20 hours ago

Fitting a mathematical function to a dataset does not implicitly adopt the ontological baggage of probability theory. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of applied mathematics

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