90% of anything should be bad (& the precision-recall tradeoff)
Introduction Sturgeon’s Law states that 90% of anything is crap. So 90% of sci-fi books are crap, and 90% of medical research, and 90% of jazz solos, and 90% of LessWrong posts. Etc, etc — 90% of anything is crap. Now, people usually interpret Sturgeon’s Law pessimistically. “What a shame!”...
Sep 8, 202234