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That's the same problem of airplane overbooking. Everything has a cost, the false positives (empty desks where no one's coming) and the false negatives (people
by thanatropism 8y ago
That's the same problem of airplane overbooking.
Everything has a cost, the false positives (empty desks where no one's coming) and the false negatives (people without desks). You have, as in the movie "Fight club", to figure out whether p * c0 < (1-p) * c1 or the other way around.