This refers to random variables that have fat-tailed distributions-- random variables that occasionally give you really big outcomes.

这就表示,服从长尾分布的随机变量,这些数据出现极端值的概率比较大

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What I'm gonna do is draw a larger table, the same basic structure: I'm choosing Alpha and Beta on the rows, my pair is choosing Alpha and Beta on the columns, but now I'm going to put both grades in.

我要画个结构相同的大表格,用列来表示我选α还是β,用行来表示我对手选α还是β,但我要把两人成绩写在一个单元格里

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You know from catastrophe, cata is Greek for down.

从大灾难这个词知道，希腊人用cata表示下降。

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double And now this is getting pretty big.

类型占64位。，And，a，double，is，64，bits。,现在这个可以表示的数值是相当大的了。

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It's more likely than Y the probability that they're going to choose right is more than Y, then the highest line of these three is this one, which corresponds to my choosing Middle.

即比Y大,也就说对手选右的概率大于Y,那么这三条线中最高的是这条线,这条线表示我选中的收益

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