i am mortified. i've been writing art code in #rstats for several years now and it was only yesterday that i realised how useful the cauchy distribution is if you want the untidiness in an image to feel naturalistic

February 22, 2026 - 20:51 UTC

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a cauchy ouchie if you will
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The cauchy distribution keeps me up at night.
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This is so cool and looks amazing! 🤩 Will you have a blog post explaining why the Cauchy is particularly useful? (I guess it has something to do with the tails?)
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yeah it's the heavy tails doing the work here. i was chatting about this with folks on mastodon actually. to my mind cauchy has an artistic elegance, but i suspect there's many ways to do it. idk, might make a fun blog post if i get time! the comparison to gaussian is really interesting
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