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Not sure what the margin of error is on these things, but generally 97% should probably be considered 100%.
by johnhenry 9y ago
Not sure what the margin of error is on these things, but generally 97% should probably be considered 100%.
- maxerickson 9y agoThere's no margin of error for the test they did, just potential sampling bias. Given the 5000 questions they asked, the system will provide the wrong answer 2.6% of the time. Every time, until they improve it. There's a chance that they managed to ask the only 150 questions that it doesn't know the answer to, but not a very big one.
- johnhenry 9y agoI agree -- given the sample space, there is not effective way to calculate the margin of error. Even so, I don't think that there are many examples of non-deterministic mechanisms that produce the correct answer 97% of the time.
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- jgalt212 9y agoa parser that is 97% correct is broken.
- Kurtz79 9y agoA parser (assuming you are talking about a programming language parser) has the luxury of having highly structured and deterministic inputs, and to be able to refuse giving an "answer" if they are not.
- jgalt212 9y ago> highly structured and deterministic inputs not all parsers deal with such inputs, and parsers that don't can and often do produce multiple interpretations of the input data.
- Kurtz79 9y agoTell me of some parsers that do not deal with deterministic inputs and have 100% accuracy, then.
- astrodust 9y agoIt's like Intel's floating point math used to be about 97% correct. Good enough, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug