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Comment Re: Travelling salesmen (Score 1) 51

It's the same with the Traveling Salesman. Right now, there is no polynomial solution known, so it is not in P. On the other hand, a non-deterministic automaton can find the shortest path in polynomial time, hence it is in NP. If we could find a solution in polynomial time for a deterministic automaton, we would have proof for P=NP.

Comment Re:Sounds like they're going to sell and get gutte (Score 1) 115

This is step 1 in trying to sell their flailing business. They obviously don't expect any more growth or they'd stick with running their own servers. Buyers want to know they can carve up the company easily, so migrating to a public cloud gives them some assurances this is possible. They're certainly hoping to get scooped up on their disintegrating brand awareness before there's no value left.

My company tried to buy them out. They responded:

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Thank you for your interest in acquiring Stack Overflow. Unfortunately, your proposal has been closed for the following reasons:

  • Too Broad: Your offer attempts to encompass infrastructure, talent, branding, and existential philosophy in a single transaction. Please narrow the scope to a specific, answerable acquisition.
  • Duplicate: This is a duplicate of several prior offers we've already declined. Please consult [closed: Why hasn't Stack Overflow sold out yet?].
  • Opinion-Based: Statements such as “We think we’d be a good fit culturally” are inherently subjective and not suitable for this kind of transaction.
  • Needs Reproducible Example: You’ve failed to provide a line-item financial breakdown, term sheet, or any working prototype of post-acquisition community support. We require a MCVE.
  • Unclear What You’re Asking: “Let’s talk synergies” is not a clear action item.
  • Off-Topic: We do not currently accept offers relating to the acquisition of community-driven Q&A platforms. This belongs on corporate-takeovers.meta.stackexchange.com.
  • Contains AI-generated Content: While parts of your proposal were cleverly worded, we detected traces of ChatGPT hallucination. Please edit the offer to reflect your own due diligence.

If you believe this closure was in error, feel free to [edit] your offer to meet community standards and flag for moderator review.

With regards,
Stack Overflow, Inc.
“Not every problem belongs here.”

Comment Re:Selection bias (Score 3, Informative) 34

And you do understand what a meta study is? You have to go through all 32 analyzed studies to look how they corrected for other factors (of which age is just one). What they did is, they accessed how those 32 studies corrected for possible bias (not only selection bias).

But for you, here a relevant quote:

Appendix 1 (pp 65–75) provides a summary of each study. In 34 (67%) of 51 studies, the minimum age of participants was 55, 60, or 65 years. The maximum reported age of a participant was 115 years and the minimum reported was 37 years, although not all studies recorded minimum and maximum age. For studies that recorded information on the distribution of sex, the proportion of female participants was between 43% and 72%. Three studies were exclusively in female participants6,64,67 and one study was exclusively in male participants.29 Reported follow-up periods ranged from 3 to 23 years, although many studies reported follow-up either as a median or mean. 20 (39%) studies were done in Europe, 17 (33%) in North America, 12 (24%) in Asia, and two (4%) in Oceania (both in Australia). Several studies reported on different dementia subtypes. 43 (84%) studies reported on dementia (including one study on non-Alzheimer’s dementia55), 24 (47%) on Alzheimer’s disease, 16 (31%) on vascular dementia, one (2%) on frontotemporal dementia, and one (2%) on mixed vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The studies reported on one or more pollutant exposures, with 40 (78%) reporting on PM25, 28 (55%) on NO2, 17 (33%) on PM10, 12 (24%) on NOx, ten (20%) on black carbon (BC)/PM25 absorbance, ten (20%) on annual O3 (O3 was reported on as warm-season or annual exposure, with two [4%] studies reporting on warm-season O3), six (12%) on PM25–10, five (10%) on carbon monoxide, five (10%) on sulphur dioxide, and three (6%) on nitrogen oxide. Additional pollutants were reported in two or fewer studies. 48 (94%) studies were cohort studies, two (4%) were cohort studies with a nested case–control analysis, and one (2%) was a case–control study.

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