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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by jhgb on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:36AM (#28413841)
> but if you need to set up n-team cross channels then this can go up factorially (realistically it won’t, but definitely larger exponent than 2)

Isn't this a power set thing? The cardinality of a power set doesn't increase factorially.

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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by ivalm on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:44PM (#28417245)
Not necessarily, Alice, Bob and Charlie talking together might not be representable through a set of <AB>, <AC>, <BC> interactions, sometimes you really need all three to be talking/listening together. Then the interaction is <ABC>.

This problem also appears in some physical materials where there are strong electron-electron correlations and so you can’t rely just on pair correlations for your calculations.

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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by jadeforrest on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:33AM (#28415473)
This thread of discussion is making my day. The Coda Hale article above gets into some of the math, but this is a great critique!
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