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This is what one in a million looks like. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/03/30/one-in-a-million-is-next-tuesday/ https://blogs.msdn.microso
by tgb 9y ago
This is what one in a million looks like. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/03/30/one-in-a-million-is-next-tuesday/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/03/30/on...
- BillinghamJ 9y agoFor computers, not humans...
- mikeash 9y agoThere are millions of iPhones X and billions of humans. It definitely applies to humans if you look at a worldwide scale.
- JimDabell 9y agoSome estimates put iPhone X sales this quarter at 30m. And don't forget that people are generally poor at estimating probabilities like this, consider the birthday problem as an example. It takes a group of ~1,200 people for a one in a million collision to be more likely than not to occur. It's very unlikely for it to happen to you, but it's very likely to happen to somebody.
- twhb 9y agoYet you didn't hear about this with the "1 in 50,000" Touch ID. It's not about brute force, but filtering (you know who has a similar face, you don't know who has a similar fingerprint) and input distribution (similar faces are more likely to be nearby than similar fingerprints).
- fromfuture 9y ago.. and is the reason I'm so skeptical about Self-Driving Cars. I even think that AI investments are going to be a major cause of the next stock market crash.