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That was my thought. If the data is written in some specific format, shouldn’t it be able to be read just as easily, without resorting to ML?
by black6 7y ago
That was my thought. If the data is written in some specific format, shouldn’t it be able to be read just as easily, without resorting to ML?
- ben_w 7y agoI think the idea is to make it readable even if civilisation ends and we don’t have any record of the format when the tech is re-invented afterward — A built-in Rosetta Stone.
- EpicEng 7y agoBut you'd still need to be able to run the classifier, right? What's the difference between that and a piece of code that just knows the format? There's still a format here, regardless of how it's being decoded.
- ben_w 7y agoI’m not sure I follow. The idea (if it works is another matter) is that a future civilisation can say “we don’t know what this format is, let’s throw machine learning at it” and even though that machine learning system doesn’t know anything about the format when it starts, it can work it out on its own.
- EpicEng 7y agoThat would work regardless of the format, so why use ML today? Today you just write a decoder that assumes the format, in the future it can be reversed engineered using whatever means they have available to them.