Every time you have your work "checked over by other serious people", it eliminates 90% of the mistakes. So you have it checked over twice so that 99% of mistakes have been eliminated, and so on. But it never gets to 0% mistakes. That's my experience anyway.
Serious people like to look at things through a magnifying glass. Which makes them miss a lot.
I've seen printed books checked by paid professionals that consisted a "replace all" populated without context. Creating a grammar error on every single page. Or ones where everyone just forgot to add page numbers. Or a large cook book where index and page numbers didn't mach, making it almost impossible to navigate.
I'm talking of pre-AI work, with publisher. Apparently it wasn't obvious for them.
Right! It's well known that technical people never make mistakes.
I think the expectation is more that serious people have their work checked over by other serious people to catch the obvious mistakes.
Every time you have your work "checked over by other serious people", it eliminates 90% of the mistakes. So you have it checked over twice so that 99% of mistakes have been eliminated, and so on. But it never gets to 0% mistakes. That's my experience anyway.
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Serious people like to look at things through a magnifying glass. Which makes them miss a lot.
I've seen printed books checked by paid professionals that consisted a "replace all" populated without context. Creating a grammar error on every single page. Or ones where everyone just forgot to add page numbers. Or a large cook book where index and page numbers didn't mach, making it almost impossible to navigate.
I'm talking of pre-AI work, with publisher. Apparently it wasn't obvious for them.
But what about an ML person roped into writing an AI assisted blogpost about security