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embedding-shapetoday at 12:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

> If I want to induce a false positive in TSA's airport scanner, I can put a gun-shaped object in my bag. If I want to induce a false positive in Waymo's stop sign detection system, I can paint my own sign and put it up on a pole.

Holy strawman-batman, not only does the founder of Pangram not have a proper response to the actual criticisms, he feels the need to completely make up very different situations to try to illustrate some completely different point... I guess good job of the founder to engage at all, as deBoer does bring up a lot of valid points and criticisms of why people really shouldn't rely on "tools" like Pangram, too bad the founder failed completely at addressing the more serious points, and instead just chose to say "Well, there will be false-positives, what can you do?".


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cgiotoday at 1:41 PM

Indeed, that’s not about false positives predominantly. At least for me the key concern is if it’s giving a percentage when it looks like it calculates a Boolean and therefore implies more nuanced analysis than it does. Which explains the nesting behaviour too.

johnfntoday at 3:44 PM

Pangram said a bunch of reasonable things and responded very coherently to the point and you skipped over it and misinterpreted this one section.

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ameliaquiningtoday at 2:08 PM

I'm confused, what are the "actual criticisms" you think weren't responded to?

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