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estrus

2023年02月25日 | 英単語
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davisの "Rebooting AI" を読んでいます。

The problem of mismatched goals can also take subtler forms. In the early days of machine learning company to build a system that could predict when cows are going into estrus. The specified goal fot the probram was to generate predictions "estrus / no estrus" as accurately as possilble.

"estrus" を辞書で調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: a period of time in which a female animal is fertile and ready to have sex
・Collins Dictionary: the usual US spelling of oestrus: a regularly occurring period of sexual receptivity in most female mammals, except humans, during which ovulation occurs and copulation can take place; heat
・Wiktionary: (biology) A female animal's readiness to mate; heat, rut.: It’s the supremely human act, freely to fuck, not because you are on heat, or in oestrus, like an animal, but to give and receive pleasure.
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