it would be clearer to say that it is stochastically accurate

“AI models have started training other AI models, by pressing The-Button-That-Trains-AI-models; this button was built 7 years ago by a bunch of online volunteers we won’t ever credit.”

The output is not the output of the algorithm, it’s the output of the unit test.

95% of numbers up to that point at not prime. Testing the algorithm that only says “not prime” is therefore correct 95% of the time. The joke is that, similar to AI, the algorithm is being presented as a useful tool because it’s correct often but not always.

The test suite probably looks something like this:

int tests_passed=0;
int tests_failed=0;
for(int i=0;i<100000;i++){
    printf("test no. %d: ", i);
    if(is_prime(i)==actually_is_prime(i)){
        printf("passed\n");
        tests_passed++;
    }else{
        printf("failed\n");
        tests_failed++;
    }
}
//...

that’s the joke, since most numbers aren’t prime, this function is technically highly accurate despite being completely useless.

Removed by mod

ifunny

Not even adding some watermark? smh

So elegant! This is too valuable for GitHub, sell this directly to the Saudi government.

also btw icymi, this is a post about LLMs

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