Kindly comments on Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes - Less Wrong

25 Post author: gwern 04 January 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: Kindly 04 January 2013 07:37:38PM 1 point [-]

What do the pairings even mean, exactly? I would expect two nodes to be paired iff they are closer to each other than to any other node. If this is the case, then under a random-distance model with n nodes the probability that two specific nodes are paired is 1/(2n-3).

Comment author: gwern 04 January 2013 08:32:50PM 0 points [-]

As far as I know, it means that they are closer, yes.