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Hilarious, seriously. Scary, too...

• philippeback 11y ago
  Indeed. Love it! As usual: Step 1: metric is used to indicate performance Step 2: developer finds a way to hack the metric Step 3: developer profit Step 4: metric now considered unusable LOCs, #of issues fixed, ... all in the same bag.
  • ordinary 11y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
    • hebdo 11y ago
      Tell that to people doing machine learning!
      • drdeca 11y ago
        Isn't that kind of why they use a training set and a separate evaluation set?