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18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke
Night Science
Using Qointosis to Make Decisions
I think the idea of random isalgithen, using qointosis or randomness to make decisions in order to circumvent some problem, is something that is very appealing to me. And coin tossing actually makes it possible, when you can prove it's impossible in a setting when there's no clocks. It's also a way to synchronize and therefore reach consentsus. If there is no clock, you can prove that you can't do it. But if you have coin, you can toss coins, you can. Which is kind of fascinat the ideas that everybody talks points, and it's eventually, with high probability, everybody's not toss the same point,. That enables
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