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Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology by torben-friis on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:31AM (#50350685)
"reliability gates agentic analytics" is quite a garden path sentence, at least to the eyes of a non-native speaker.
Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology by mycall on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:42AM (#50351314)
As a native speaker, I read this as "This controls enabling or disabling of all analytic features used by AI model loops"

Now there are times when I let the model keep its own docs in its own language, for its own future reference; but, it is not intended for human distribution due to its odd selection of words and phrases (aka slop).

Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology by wccrawford on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:03AM (#50351505)
I think it's slightly different: Without reliability, agentic analytics is useless.

Or: Agentic analytics is gated on sufficient reliabilty.

Or reallllly short and hard to understand: Reliability gates agentic analytics.

Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology by svnt on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:22AM (#50351666)
The more common english term is “held back” instead of gated.

And nvidia probably doesn’t want to say “probabilistic responses including hallucinations preclude reliable ai analytics”

As it is the sentence communicates very little. Things are unreliable for a lot of different reasons. Hardware? Software? Users? Intentional and required use of RNGs? Claude presumes the reader has all the same weights activated.

Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology by FrustratedMonky on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:40AM (#50352569)
I've used the word "Gate" in this context.

People are really seeing 'AI' in everything now. You can't tell.

Humans are now hallucinating what is, or is not, AI.

Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology by zdragnar on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:53AM (#50353528)
Using gate as a verb is extremely rare in American English, though perhaps more common in British English. I would hazard a guess that very few people who aren't exposed to Claude on a regular basis would think that was anything other than gibberish.