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pafoster

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    Comment #48418578

    Markov chains are themselves a kind of state machine, namely a probabilistic deterministic finite automaton (PDFA), albeit where state is solely governed by the N most recent symbo…

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    Comment #48278164

    JSD is slightly different to forward KL + reverse KL (which is unbounded, whereas JSD measured in bits is in the range [0, 1]). One way to interpret JSD(P, Q): Associate the distri…

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    Comment #47166700

    Developer here. Thanks for all the kind feedback!

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    Comment #47166682

    Many thanks for the feedback and for flagging this up. I've tweaked the drop-down.