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gsf_emergency_6today at 4:39 AM1 replyview on HN

That's par for a field whose name seems to have been inspired by "reverse-engineering", which by construction doesn't try to understand products that have not yet reached the market :)


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erutoday at 7:19 AM

Well, but you can also reverse engineer nature (or the output of gradient descent) or the products of an adversary.