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We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per ...
Yeah, but this version is not necessarily optimal. If you have 4 positive samples, then you will test 2+2+1+1+1+1 = 8, instead of 4 in the naive case.
It feels like a problem for information theory.
bequanna
on April 8, 2020
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I didn’t say it was optimal, but it is a huge improvement on doing 64 tests for 64 samples.
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It feels like a problem for information theory.