Ergodicity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being ergodic. uncountable

    "Hence it is no problem to learn by making hundreds of thousands of largely random, and frequently fatal, mistakes. The ergodicity assumption does not hold outside the safe toy worlds of Atari."

  2. 2
    an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions wordnet
  3. 3
    The extent to which something is ergodic. countable

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stochasticity

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"Hence it is no problem to learn by making hundreds of thousands of largely random, and frequently fatal, mistakes. The ergodicity assumption does not hold outside the safe toy worlds of Atari."

Etymology

From ergodic + -ity.

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