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I think of summaries as the text equivalent of averaging. Some high frequency stuff you don’t want to loose in that case are things like proper names, specific
by sroussey 2y ago
I think of summaries as the text equivalent of averaging. Some high frequency stuff you don’t want to loose in that case are things like proper names, specific dates, etc. In the face of such signal, you don’t want to average it out to a “him” and a “Monday”.
- datameta 2y agoThat would be a median in your example no? A spurious average might be us thinking that the statistical mean word contains all vowels except for 'e', and that 'm' is twice as likely as the other most likely consonants.
- bitwize 2y agoThat makes a lot of sense. Thank you for this analogy. We use Conscrewence at work for internal documentation, and when I pull a page up it wants to recommend an AI-generated summary for me. Uh, no, Atlassian, I'm on this page because I want all the details!