Comment by golol
3 hours ago
I just meant that choosing the same 2 routes out of 4 would not at all be a great coincidence without knowing what Tristan was working on.
3 hours ago
I just meant that choosing the same 2 routes out of 4 would not at all be a great coincidence without knowing what Tristan was working on.
if you assume the choice of route is a uniformly distributed random variable, yes. but this assumption does not seem consistent with "Almost nobody else I know of was working on it", from Tristan's quote. nor with "It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement".