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A bit tangential, but > As engineers we want everything to be black and white should not be true of "us engineers". Engineering is balancing trade-offs, and a
by ansgri 4y ago
A bit tangential, but
> As engineers we want everything to be black and white
should not be true of "us engineers". Engineering is balancing trade-offs, and any moderately complex system is a big hairy ball of tradeoffs, some of them (in the best case) unarticulated. I get suspicious of boolean logic applied to real world, especially after working in AI for a long while.
That black and white thinking is characteristic of juniors, and some mathematicians dealing with models disconnected from the real world.
- 93po 4y agoIt's funny because "As engineers we want everything to be black and white" is a very black and white statement. But people at large are like this. We see it all the time in politics. Whoever you don't like is either literally Hitler or literally Stalin
- ghiculescu 4y agoYou're right. Maybe a better wording is, as engineers we want to know the success criteria for everything.