SarahC comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 September 2010 02:41:41AM 2 points [-]

I've heard about the medical datasets.

Noise is a pretty interesting thing, and the possibility of "denoising" depends a lot on the kind of noise. White noise is the easiest to get rid of; malicious noise, which isn't random but targeted to be "worst-case," can thwart denoising methods that were designed for white noise.