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Here's Terry Tao's Buzz post about this: https://profiles.google.com/114134834346472219368/posts/2Lwv5FnHWMd https://profiles.google.com/114134834346472219368/p

by bdhe 15y ago

Here's Terry Tao's Buzz post about this: https://profiles.google.com/114134834346472219368/posts/2Lwv5FnHWMd https://profiles.google.com/114134834346472219368/posts/2Lwv... Largely along the lines of a couple of comments that were already mentioned here.

hugh3 15y ago
An excellent exploration of the art of understatement: The derivation of the model also seems rather ad hoc in nature (fitting a power law to the assumption of a 99% intensity at Tora Bora and a 1% intensity at Washington DC). Yep, that sounds pretty arbitrary! (I'd also be amazed if it was only 99 times less likely for him to be in Washington DC than Tora Bora...)