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> Math can't deal with imperfect input See stats, probability, information theory, and signal analysis

• mjburgess 7y ago
  That's a different sense of "imperfect", meaning, "inexact". Here: Malformed
  • mannykannot 7y ago
    There's some non-trivial math behind the methods for defining and selecting well-formed data.
    • nomel 7y ago
      And they tend to always accept data that is malformed to look like regular data.
      • mannykannot 7y ago
        Putting aside the question of whether this is a tendentious exaggeration, it is more of a problem in ad-hoc code.