tasks this is we can actually make that notion formal the way we make it formal as we say there's a lucien over tasks there's a distribution p task and you assume that all of your mediterranean tasks are drawn from that distribution and you assume that all of your meta test tasks are drawn from the same distribution so this is the meta learning analog of the standard supervised learning assumption now what does a distribution over tasks really mean well that's sometimes ends up being a much more subjective notion if you