worthless study
"Eva was terminated after November. “When the tourist season was over, the number of arriving international passengers became very low, and so there was very little benefit to permitting non-essential travel to the country,” Drakopoulos told The Reg."
This is where the whole "ML" study falls apart entirely. Having data about people the model wouldn't have selected in the first place, in order, say ... to learn, like in "Machine Learning" would have been priceless.
But they shut it down !
So, they end up with a model only learning about the sample it did select. So hardly more than tossing a coin.
"The researchers declined to say how many people total were tested after being singled out by Eva, citing privacy reasons"
Wow, the bullshitometer just went through the roof, here !
"Gupta told El Reg that accuracy and Eva’s false positive and negative rates weren't relevant in the study."
Thanks $DEITY, since the whole methodology sent those metrics out of the window. Glad they didn't care :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
