Talk:Information geometry

message: A lot of the statements made in this article are not strictly true under all circumstances.  Thus, many of the statements made should be modified to mention the scope of circumstances that the claims are valid.IGApprentice (talk) 06:20, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  General 

message: Any objections to removing all of the following?  The comments are somewhat bizarre and unrelated to the true nature of information geometry.  Furthermore, they are generally quite old and unsigned.  Please make an effort to sign your posts to facilitate discussion. IGApprentice (talk) 04:43, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I had to look at the history of this talk page to see what you were talking about. Yeah, it was strange nonsense of some kind. However, in general, one should not ever delete stuff from the talk pages (unless moving it to an archive page). It would have sufficed to just put a section heading on it, to separate if from the reasonable discussion below. linas (talk) 21:36, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Substance 

message: These are all in Amari's book, listed in the references.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.175.193.183 (talk) 14:58, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed 

message: I plan to cut out large parts of this article; most/all of it recapitulates large parts of well-known differential geometry concepts that are well-explained in other WP articles.  After cutting these out, I'll see whats left, and try to turn that into a real article.  I figure someone will scream in pain about this, so scream here.  I'm sure some compromise must be possible.  linas (talk) 17:11, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed most of stuff on tangent spaces and metrics and tensors, as this is covered in any & all textbooks, and have nothing to do with info geom. Will try to attack rest of article later. linas (talk) 18:26, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ugh. That still leaves behind a huge raft of formulas with no intuitive explanation given at all. Even the very first section gives a standard information-theoretic argument that can be found in textbooks, but here it is so awkwardly worded that I cannot figure out quite how to fix it. The next sections are hardly better. As I read through John Baez's posts, I'll try to clean this up, may take a while. linas (talk) 21:27, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm the raft of dense formulas was added in this  single revision.  Unfortunately, that revision removed a bunch of simply-worded, easy to understand text, replacing it with the current impenetrable raft of goo. So part of the effort must be to revive some part of the older content, and provide it as the intro.  And certain parts of this article, e.g. the alpha connection, probably should be (??) moved to its own stand-alone article.  linas (talk) 21:44, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your assessment. A number of the concepts of differential geometry are summarized here so briefly by intransparent formulas that it looks more like note-cards than an encyclopedia article. It would be better to replace them by more generally worded descriptions with pointers to more in-depth articles. Information geometry is a synthesis of statistics, information theory and differential geometry, but it spends all the time on the latter, trying to do a hurry-up, technical, but inadequate precis of a semester course in differential geometry. 178.38.60.255 (talk) 20:24, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing most of the material 

message: Hi, would someone be so kind to add some (simple) examples?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.109.103.69 (talk) 10:43, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples or Motivation? 

message: I removed most of the material and started on a rewrite to make this more readable. It still needs a lot of work, though. I couldn't get that one paragraph to format correctly, which is due to my inexperience with Wikipedia. I'm a geometer by background, so hopefully someone with more knowledge of statistics can help with the statistical background and flesh out the applications a bit more. If need be, I can try to provide citations for where IG is used in those fields. 141.211.130.151 (talk) 23:53, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rewrite