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Re:A Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out by 24gttghh on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:20PM (#15908004)
I think the false-negatives of such a system, which weren't entirely addressed ("will get better with machine learning"), would be worth more to look into than things not guns being seen as guns.
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Re:A Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out by mark-r on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:03PM (#15908947)
False negative and false positive rates are correlated, you can generally trade off one for the other - although I don't know how easy that is with machine learning. The false negative rate doesn't have to be perfect to be a deterrent - would you try to sneak a gun into a casino if you knew you had a 50/50 chance of being caught?
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Re:A Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out by 24gttghh on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:30AM (#15914059)
People sneak and accidentally take guns on a plane all the time and don't get caught, but I'm not sure what the 'catch-rate' is for that.
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