ofthecaribbean

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   by ofthecaribbean 13y ago

   I'm not saying the Tesla is less safe: I'm saying that, contrary to what the parent post implied in his wording, it's almost certainly more likely for the battery to catch fire than for a gas tank.
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   by ofthecaribbean 13y ago

   That estimate is a little bold: we can reject the hypothesis that the probability is smaller than 1/260 with p-value 0.05 (good confidence), but with your threshold of 1/26 the p-value becomes poor. Note that due to the lack of se
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   by ofthecaribbean 13y ago

   If you have an integer random walk and the step sizes are multiples of 3, you cannot reach a location that is not a multiple of 3. The ECC structure they described is similar to the set of multiples of 3: for example, an analog computer try
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   by ofthecaribbean 13y ago

   This is possible with a gas car, but the gas tank doesn't occupy the whole bottom of the car and even if it is punctured, it won't ignite unless there is some additional spark or heat source. Given the number of gas cars on the
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   by ofthecaribbean 13y ago

   Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_%28game%29 ? But I don't see how your explanation is compatible with their claim that found a neat structure like a "doubly even self-dual linear" ECC. If