Clément Canonne
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Among the many mind-blowing things in complexity|theory are the "win-win" theorems. If one can show that "if A doesn't work, well then B must"... we're done.E.g., "A is efficient if
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It's Thursday [reference needed], time for a weᵄekly quiz! Given some recent events about randomized polynomial time (RP), it feels like a short discussion about is topical.So, let's go:
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Two days ago, I asked a question. Way more people answered than expected, and... well, this week's weₐekly #quiz will be slightly ≠: a long thread on uniformity testing, trickling
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Also, neat trick related to the Poisson distribution ... if you take n i.i.d. samples from some discrete p, then the # times you see domain elem'ts are not independent
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