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dist-epoch
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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to...
Do they assume any particular distribution of the items?
Otherwise Nassim Taleb would like a word with them.
coldtea
8 months ago
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No, and Taleb is not relevant for this.
dist-epoch
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It is if the distribution is extreme.
coldtea
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If Hamlet was 100000000 times the word Hamlet and 1 time the word pancake, it would still give an good estimate measurement - even if pancake gets 0.
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Otherwise Nassim Taleb would like a word with them.