A note on two-colorability of nonuniform hypergraphs

For a hypergraph H, let q(H) denote the expected number of monochromatic edges when the color of each vertex in H is sampled uniformly at random from the set of size 2. Let s_{min}(H) denote the minimum size of an edge in H. Erdös asked in 1963 whether there exists an unbounded function g(k) such that any hypergraph H with s_{min}(H) >=slant k and q(H) <=slant g(k) is two colorable. Beck in 1978 answered this question in the affirmative for a function g(k) = Theta(log^* k). We improve this result by showing that, for an absolute constant delta>0, a version of random greedy coloring procedure is likely to find a proper two coloring for any hypergraph H with s_{min}(H) >=slant k and q(H) <=slant delta * log k.