{"id":109,"date":"2007-07-19T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T01:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-12-05T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:19:40","slug":"the-james-lin-conjecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/19\/the-james-lin-conjecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Lin conjecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My claim: a set of 2000 people has a greater than 50% probability of having someone else with my name.<\/p>\n<p>VMware recently hired someone else named &#8220;James Lin&#8221;.  Today I received four separate emails for him.  I wonder if he&#8217;s receiving any of mine.  Maybe he can fix some of my bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My claim: a set of 2000 people has a greater than 50% probability of having someone else with my name. VMware recently hired someone else named &#8220;James Lin&#8221;. Today I received four separate emails for him. I wonder if he&#8217;s receiving any of mine. Maybe he can fix some of my bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-imposters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}