franktaber, 1 month ago

@inquiline "big box o' numbers"

aburka, 1 month ago

@inquiline the dilution of the term is a real problem. There's a huge difference between "statistical pattern matching on mammograms" (decades of research progress) and "asking ChatGPT whether my rash is cancer" (new and dystopian) but when you just say "AI in healthcare" I'm always going to assume the worst

MayInToronto, 1 month ago

@inquiline
"Pattern Recognition" doesn't get VC funding. 😭

adamgreenfield, 1 month ago

@inquiline @MayInToronto It was a pretty good book, though, c’mon.

inquiline, 1 month ago

@adamgreenfield @MayInToronto It was. Perhaps one of the last novels I remember reading (I stopped both reading and remembering novels some time ago)

kzodasnowman, 1 month ago

@inquiline I couldn't figure out why I disliked his writing on machine learning even though I agree with him; you've clarified for me, thanks!

inquiline, 1 month ago

@kzodasnowman I respect his work so much too! Nonetheless he's fallen down a totally gratuitous techbro rabbit hole in terms of the labeling