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Read the paper and still confused as to what the author means by “noise”? And don’t you know whether something is noise or not after the fact? You may think so
by AznHisoka 7y ago
Read the paper and still confused as to what the author means by “noise”?
And don’t you know whether something is noise or not after the fact? You may think some signal is useful when you first encounter it and you may not know it’s noise until after it produces a false prediction. So silencing it isn’t actually possible.
- AznHisoka 7y agoAs an example, before 9/11, there was some chatter about a possible terrorist attack in the USA. After 9/11 we know now this wasn’t noise. But if it hadn’t happen, we would classify it as noise. Telling the CIA to silence the noise is useless advice because we don’t know beforehand what is noise!