@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 …
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@GabrielDuquette Always tradeoff between 'missing what's there' and 'seeing what isn't there'. Massively important.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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@GabrielDuquette Public discourse tends to treat both as 1) equally unacceptable and 2) unrelated. Like ignorant children.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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@GabrielDuquette I think a big part of that is the awful vocabulary. Fuck, *I* can't keep I and II straight.2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
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@St_Rev @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette "sensitive" ok for one end - ppl understand that oversensitive means seeing things that aren't there2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette 'false positive' and 'false negative' are so much better than type I and II, why ever use latter2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette but...there should be a catchy term like 'Chesterton Fence' for the...sort of uncertainty principle1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette Classical Heisenberg: (error in position) x (error in momentum) => a constant1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette there should be a name for the heuristic (false positive rate) x (false negative rate) => constant3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
@simplic10 @sunnenchien @GabrielDuquette Just for starters. Qualitative, story-fied patterns around that.
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