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I don't understand how you still can't get it. Let us try again. Suppose you're a professor and you had a super-productive student who wrote 100 very interesti
by Kenji 10y ago
I don't understand how you still can't get it. Let us try again.
Suppose you're a professor and you had a super-productive student who wrote 100 very interesting papers. You only have time to read 50 of them, selected at random. However, you notice that in 10 of these 50 papers, there are mathematical errors. What do you expect of the remaining papers, how many errors will there be? This is basic statistics and nothing about this argument is emotional.
What if you read 50 papers and only one contained mistakes? Would you expect more or less errors now in the remaining papers?
- dimino 10y agoYour analogy isn't relevant to this conversation.
- Kenji 10y agoDo you really think they read through the entire source code and understood every facet of it? Code audits are nothing but sampling. Just like in the example I mentioned. I don't mind people disagreeing with me, but you could at least make an effort to tell me why. Unless this bores you, of course.