Pavitra comments on Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 29 August 2010 10:35:14PM 0 points [-]

I don't think that's right. I don't have the math to show why yet, but my current working hunch says to make explicit your assumptions about whether the initial number of blobs, and the number of generations, are continuous or discrete, because the geometric distribution may not actually be right.