Stop keeping running mean, but with added floating-point MUL #2
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In order to avoid recalculating the mean on each datapoint (which would incur another floating-point divide), we need to rearrange how we calculate the variance. Unfortunately, this rearrangement not longer looks like the algorithm cited on Wikipedia, making it harder to follow.
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In order to avoid recalculating the mean on each datapoint (which would
incur another floating-point divide), we need to rearrange how we calculate
the variance. Unfortunately, this rearrangement not longer looks like the
algorithm cited on Wikipedia, making it harder to follow.
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