thebzax

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   by thebzax 6y ago

   I don't know if you're being pedantic, or what exactly. The definition of infection on wikipedia is "An infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the rea
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   by thebzax 7y ago

   My preferred term is "47 kilofeeters"
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   by thebzax 7y ago

   Icahn owned a bunch of Lyft stock before the IPO. Lyft, as a company, issued new shares in an IPO. As is standard practice for an IPO in which the company issues new shares to raise money, Lyft required all of existing stockholders to agre
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   by thebzax 8y ago

   that sounds like the exact opposite of a zero-knowledge proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
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   by thebzax 8y ago

   There's a paper from just a couple years ago about turning hanabi (with >2 players) into a variant of the 100-prisoner hat color problem: http://helios.mi.parisdescartes.fr/~bouzy/publications/bouzy... For
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   by thebzax 8y ago

   The question is more about what kinds of distributions are in some sense "reasonable" for this setup. A uniform distribution for wine/water is problematic because it implies a non-uniform distribution for water/wine, an
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   by thebzax 8y ago

   Unfortunately, not quite. Note from the blog post that "Since P sits in BQP which sits in PSPACE we can't prove outright any separations for BQP without separating P from PSPACE". We still haven't proven P isn't e