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  • I’m not debating. It is not a matter of opinion. I’m doing you the courtesy of informing you how the entire rest of the world uses the term.

    If action A looks for thing X, and it finds thing X, then the test is positive. If action A fails to find thing X, then the test is negative.

    If action A claims to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is not really there, then this situation is called “false positive”.

    If action A claims fails to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is actually there, then this situation is called “false negative”.

    That thing X may subjectively be considered an unwanted outcome has **nothing ** to do with the terms used.











  • After all these years I still don’t know how to look at what I’ve coded and tell you a big O math formula for its efficiency.

    I don’t even know the words. Like is quadratic worse than polynomial? Or are those two words not legit?

    However, I have seen janky performance, used performance tools to examine the problem and then improved things.

    I would like to be able to glance at some code and truthfully and accurately and correctly say, “Oh that’s in factorial time,” but it’s just never come up in the blue-collar coding I do, and I can’t afford to spend time on stuff that isn’t necessary.