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Re:IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia by jsmthrowaway on Sunday August 07, 2016 @01:31AM (#12241188)
> After all, winning the lottery is a lot less impressive if you've bought a few million tickets

I don't know, I'd still be impressed, wouldn't you? Buying a few million lottery tickets is impressive by itself, both logistically and financially. And even still, odds. It's a lot of risk for anybody to dangle.

Shit, buying every ticket is even more impressive. (I grant your point, you just posed a funny metaphor as comparison.)

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Re:IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia by jacquesm on Sunday August 07, 2016 @04:31AM (#12241484)
I don't think buying every ticket is more impressive, it is pretty much the definition of a losing strategy.

Tests like these are all about the statistics and without statistics this result - while important to this particular individual - is almost meaningless.

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