Concentration of measure and typical sets

Bob’s case study already covers a continuous example of concentration of measure, as does section 4.2 of https://github.com/betanalpha/stan_intro.

I cannot emphasize enough not un-elightening it is to chase analytic results about concentration of measure. What matters is not the details but the gross conceptual consequences, such as the neighborhood around the mode being a terrible characterization of a distribution in high dimensions.

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