Re:NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)
by DuskStar on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:11AM
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The problem is incredibly ill defined. Do they want the sum of the temperatures calculated above? (Nonsensical) The temperature that the galaxy would have if you mixed everything together? (Insufficient information on star size and material composition) The average of the stars temperatures? (ALSO nonsensical!)
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Re:NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)
by mattkrause on Monday August 30, 2021 @11:43AM
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What's wrong with the average temperature over many stars?
It gives you the best possible estimate (in a MSE sense) for the temperature of a new star for which you know nothing about.
It may not be a great estimate (e.g, the distribution is multimodal because stars come in various types), but it doesn't seem obviously nonsensical.