On: The maths of the paper disproving conspiracy theor...

[ikeboy]

Wouldn't they leak every time if intentional? The fact that pics only rarely get released in advance implies the leaks aren't authorised.

[IanCal → ikeboy]

Not necessarily, a constant reliable stream of information isn't as 'interesting' as more random results.

I think the right terms for this are "variable reward" and "variable interval" here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement