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In case you want to know what’s going on in the left side of that chart, they gave a log scale in appendix a. I was thinking it was silly to not just use that version on the top, but I guess log scales make big differences ’feel’ smaller.


A log scale is actually appropriate in this context from a first-principles perspective. Per scaling laws (and also general behavior of epsilon-probability of failure multiplied N times), you would generally expect more vs. less effective techniques to have multiplicatively greater or fewer steps until failure, not additively greater/fewer. Figure 1 is comical, but the appendix figure is the more scientifically appropriate one.


At that rate, they might as well have gone one step further and made the x axis exponential scale to make it feel even bigger.




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