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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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This understanding will help computer scientists to prioritize, among different random sampling techniques. Vitali mall man of televive university says borgon probably spent more time on this problem than any other problem he'd ever worked on. And from a practical standpoint, it means that a random walk is guaranteed to mix through a convex shape much faster than researchers could previously prove.

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