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It's very easy to achieve if someone hands you a "coin" that is made such that it never lands on tails. Sorry for still being in the adversarial mindset, but t
by falcor84 1y ago
It's very easy to achieve if someone hands you a "coin" that is made such that it never lands on tails.
Sorry for still being in the adversarial mindset, but this means that you essentially have to hardcode a maximum number of same-side flips after which you stop trusting the coin.
- Dylan16807 1y agoThat's not a situation of "can't be done", that's just a consequence of casually describing the problem instead of exhaustively specifying it. Yes the bias has to be finite / the entropy can't be zero, and the slowdown is related to how big the bias is / how low the entropy is.