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Re:Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct h... by 11101010001100 on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:16PM (#33071484)
> statistical methods to very improbable events

What is the alternative?

Re:Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct h... by treis on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:37PM (#33071792)
If I had one I'd be clearing a space on my shelf for my Nobel Prize

Seriously though, I don't think there's any way to know for sure. Like imagine if it were dice rolls. You can look at the results and draw conclusions to see if it's a weighted dice. But what if my table biased rolls or if some results were lost? It's probably reasonable to conclude that they weren't but no way that I can see to be sure.

Re:Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct h... by enviclash on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:06PM (#33072194)
Random walks.