Re:Hacker News for Hackers
by pmoriarty on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:28PM
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"It doesn't seem like the end of the world if you lose a little wheat with the chaff."
But is it losing a little or a lot? No way to tell without looking.
Even if it misses just a little, that little bit might have been crucial. If it misclassifies "NYC NUKED!!!" as uninteresting that's a single mistake that could make me oblivious to a hugely consequential event.
Of course, as a human classifier, I'll doubtlessly making my own mistakes, and maybe the AI classifier could help me out by pre-classifying articles for me, but it could also be misleading and will cost me in terms of spending time on training and maintenance. I'm not really sure what the right solution is here.
But is it losing a little or a lot? No way to tell without looking.
Even if it misses just a little, that little bit might have been crucial. If it misclassifies "NYC NUKED!!!" as uninteresting that's a single mistake that could make me oblivious to a hugely consequential event.
Of course, as a human classifier, I'll doubtlessly making my own mistakes, and maybe the AI classifier could help me out by pre-classifying articles for me, but it could also be misleading and will cost me in terms of spending time on training and maintenance. I'm not really sure what the right solution is here.