> > Picasa is very good, but I still get plenty of false hits--maybe 1 > > or 2%. That doesn't sound like much, but if a cop cam identifies one > > or two out of every 100 people on the street as criminal, the > > watchers are going to be very, very busy, and the population is > > going to be very, very annoyed... > > That is an invalid extrapolation. An error rate of 2% does not mean > that 2 out of 100 will be identified as criminals. It simply means > they will be identified as somebody else.
Quite right. Duh. Still, an error rate of 1-2% is significant. It seems to me that, in order to be really useful for most purposes, it would have to do much better than that. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
