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Re:Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt ene... by pchristensen on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @12:58PM (#24134064)
That movie and Master and Commander are two movies that helped a digital nerd like me understand how an incredibly complex system can be managed by lots and lots of humans playing very specific roles.
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Re:Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt ene... by jonsen on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @01:35PM (#24134540)
Your comment made me remember the book Cognition in the Wild:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cognition-wild

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Re:Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt ene... by dylan604 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:16PM (#24135674)
A film set is the same way. Also, sounds like a lot of "machine learning" shops. Hire a squad of humans to do the work until the ML/AI graduates from schooling.
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