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by alexey-salmin 285 days ago
They were selling this algorithm for money and evidently didn't use any of that money to hire a single statistician to validate it. The mistake they've made isn't obscure and doesn't require a thousand pairs of eyes to catch, just one.

Imagine paying to a professional plumber, he installs the toilet upside down and then posts the photos online for the community to check his work.