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Re:Neural programmer better than Quicksort by adrianN on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:22AM (#23789035)
No, we deal with 99% accuracy in humans by designing all our human-based algorithms to be resilient against mistake (and still mistakes in the end result happen very frequently). This is completely different from the way we have designed our computer systems, because it's way easier to do this with flexible agents like humans than with inflexible agents like computers.
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Re:Neural programmer better than Quicksort by ukj on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:23AM (#23800504)
So, the mistakes algorithms make are different to the mistakes humans make?

That’s... equivocation.

Both humans and ML algorithms are flexible. That is the point of “learning”.

Adaptation.

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