@sunnenchien @GabrielDuquette Type I / Type II terms from statistics, "false positive" and "false negative" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors …
@simplic10 @sunnenchien @GabrielDuquette but...there should be a catchy term like 'Chesterton Fence' for the...sort of uncertainty principle
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@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette Classical Heisenberg: (error in position) x (error in momentum) => a constant -
@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette there should be a name for the heuristic (false positive rate) x (false negative rate) => constant -
@St_Rev@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette I think that’s a bit too simplistic. You could throw resources at it to lower the constant. -
@daniel_houck@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette a) That's why I said 'heuristic' b) in practice, same is true of Heisenberg -
@daniel_houck@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette c) I don't have the right words for this bc right words haven't been written yet -
@daniel_houck@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette maybe it should be (false positive rate) x (false negative rate) x (resources) > C -
@daniel_houck@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette ...but that stretches intuition to breaking. important point is the tradeoff
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