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When you have a machine-learning thingy to do your managing for you it's a golden miracle. But every exception that you acknowledge and address degrades that m
by swayvil 4y ago
When you have a machine-learning thingy to do your managing for you it's a golden miracle.
But every exception that you acknowledge and address degrades that miraculous functioning. Exponentially.
So there's a strong incentive to let 99% accuracy be good enough. And to let the exception-cases go completely to oblivion.
- blowski 4y agoEdge cases aren't frequent enough to have a competitive edge of not having them. Too bad for you when you're the edge case. Backing people's files up for them on my USB storage makes me feel like the aircon repairman in the Terry Gilliam film, Brazil.
- sitkack 4y agoTuttle, played by De Niro.
- sitkack 4y agoThat is exactly how bureaucracies fail, by being unable to handle the exceptional states. 80% of the effort should be spent on how to handle the thing the automatic system didn’t.
- blowski 4y agoAgree entirely. The bureaucratic tendency, though, is to see those edge cases as inconvenient inefficiencies that are just easier to ignore.