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The sampling result made the search interpretation explicit. If independent candidates have success probability p , the chance of at least one success among k is . Real samples are not independent and the paper used estimators appropriate to its setup, but the conceptual point holds: model probability plus an evaluator can search a program space. Without a reliable selector, many candidates become review burden.
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The sampling result made the search interpretation explicit. If independent candidates have success probability p , the chance of at least one success among k is . Real samples are not independent and the paper used estimators appropriate to its setup, but the conceptual point holds: model probability plus an evaluator can search a program space. Without a reliable selector, many candidates become review burden.