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Re:Artificial data give the same results as real data withou... by stelfer on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:08AM (#16618908)
Haven't read the paper, but I will.

But I want to comment that it's worked for us. Sequence to sequence learning can reproduce every kind of iid and non-iid things we've ever looked at.

The real question is how safe/anonymous is it really?

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Re:Artificial data give the same results as real data withou... by bunderbunder on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:16AM (#16618992)
I imagine it depends on how closely you model the conditional probabilities.

If it gets down to correctly modeling the probability of colon cancer diagnosis by age, sex and ZIP code, and also the correct distribution of ages by ZIP code, then that'll be a potential problem in counties that only have one male 87-year-old.

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Re:Artificial data give the same results as real data withou... by stelfer on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:28PM (#16619695)
I'm talking specifically about modeling iid/non-iid sequences of data from events, experiments, etc. Haven't read the paper so, I'm not sure if I'm talking past the authors or OP.
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