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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by fabiomaia on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:55AM (#19501399)
He can use it such that the model's predictions are still manually verified by him before actually submitting them or whatever. Seems pretty harmless to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by throwaway2019Z on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:06AM (#19501538)
In his current situation, if he zones out, he produces nothing. In the situation where he's aided by the potentially faulty described system, if he zones out, he produces erroneously transcribed data.
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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by fabiomaia on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:08PM (#19502361)
What? In his current situation, if he zones out, he can produce erroneously transcribed data too. What's your point?
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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by throwaway2019Z on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:39PM (#19505080)
What? In his current situation, even if he doesn't zone out, he can still produce erroneously transcribed data too. Why even go to work?
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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by Retric on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:07AM (#19501544)
Manual verification is likely just as tedious as doing it by hand in the first place.
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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by fabiomaia on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:07PM (#19502344)
Probably. But maybe he'll get a kick out of modeling and automating it. Challenging his intellect seems to be the key point here.
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