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Re:Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper? by achileas on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:03PM (#36765294)
Having worked in other sciences (neuroscience for me), I’m not sure what catastrophic obvious errors you’re used to seeing. The vast majority IME are like this, except with even longer feedback loops (on the order of several months).
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Re:Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper? by AbrahamParangi on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:39AM (#36771249)
Well, biology is probably a lot closer to ML in this way. My experience in chemistry or material science is that 99% of the time if you do anything wrong it totally doesn't work at all.

This is fairly typical in software as well.

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