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I don't know if you're being pedantic, or what exactly. The definition of infection on wikipedia is "An infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing a…

My preferred term is "47 kilofeeters"

Icahn owned a bunch of Lyft stock before the IPO. Lyft, as a company, issued new shares in an IPO. As is standard practice for an IPO in which the company issues new shares to rais…

that sounds like the exact opposite of a zero-knowledge proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

There's a paper from just a couple years ago about turning hanabi (with >2 players) into a variant of the 100-prisoner hat color problem: http://helios.mi.parisdescartes.fr/~bouzy/…

The question is more about what kinds of distributions are in some sense "reasonable" for this setup. A uniform distribution for wine/water is problematic because it implies a non-…

Unfortunately, not quite. Note from the blog post that "Since P sits in BQP which sits in PSPACE we can't prove outright any separations for BQP without separating P from PSPACE". …