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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by calvinmorrison on Monday July 18, 2022 @07:08PM (#32145288)
with large datasets like bioinformatics you often compress the data by extracting features and building matrixes, then only keeping things that score above a threshold
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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by Scoundreller on Monday July 18, 2022 @07:55PM (#32145698)
Sounds right. I like to say we’re all on a list and it just matters where you rank on it. And the precision is only good when you rank high on it.

No different than google search results. The accuracy of the 7th page of results just doesn’t matter.

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