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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

No the chances of being wrong 10x in a row are 2%. So the chances of being right at least once are 98%.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, my bad, you're right, for being consistently correct, I should have done 0.3^10=0.0000059049

so the chances of it being right ten times in a row are less than one thousandth of a percent.

No wonder I couldn't get it to summarise my list of data right and it was always lying by the 7th row.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

That looks better. Even with a fair coin, 10 heads in a row is almost impossible.

And if you are feeding the output back into a new instance of a model then the quality is highly likely to degrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

don’t you dare understand the explicitly obvious reasons this technology can be useful and the essential differences between P and NP problems. why won’t you be angry >:(