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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The No Free Lunch Theorem

The crux of the whole project is how do you know whether it has become less of an injury? Like if you have some other thing sitting around that will tell you whether there is an injury in a text then you should just use that instead of your classifier. There's kind of this no free lunch theorem or whatever. So here's a classification procedure you take some text and then you tweak it using rules that you know do not change whether it was an injury until you make it look as dangerous as possible. And then you see whether this new modified snippet is in fact dangerous according to your classifiers.

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