alt Hacker NewsJust curious, where has this term 'noul' come from for yes/no ansers?
/a bit more digging and..
A Noul performs a Bernoulli trial—an experiment with exactly two outcomes (yes or no)—but instead of picking one, it returns the calibrated probability (ranging from 0.0 to 1.0) that the statement is true.
I hate it :)
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Jeeves pretended to understand. Is there data showing Jev's actually calibrated?
I like it. It is short and distinct which is a good fit for a primitive. It describes its fundamental meaning and draws a connotation with Boolean.
The whole "no hallucinations" premise is based on that.
Like, yeah, you don't hallucinate, but only because you force the user to decide in the end.
Bernoulli
If you want to get super pedantic about what’s happening in a transistor every digital Boolean is actually this
In Bayesian statistics that’s called credence. Weird that they felt the need to invent a new term.