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A bit weird to develop everything in terms of a finite probability space. I guess it helps avoid fiddly technical issues of measurability. But we don't want the reader to believe that MCMC only works for finite sets. I think the most famous applications are over uncountable sets. Of course everything is technically finite due to floating-point math, but graph walks don't really capture the spirit of MCMC over finite-precision approximations of continuous probability spaces.


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