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greeneggs
on Feb 14, 2017
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A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets...
Indeed, by the "birthday paradox." And, by the "coupon collector's problem," the expected time to have seen all 30,000 images is about n*log(n) ~= 310,000 random images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector's_problem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector's_problem