> latency matters more than raw accuracy – think industrial inspection
it (rightfully) raises red flags in anyone when you hear someone confidently claim raw accuracy is _not_ important in things like _inspection_
These things aren't impossible of course but it's additional management over "place the device here".
Here's how you know that accuracy isn't the be all and end all of the discussion - we already deploy systems with less than human accuracy to monitor things, and when we use humans we very rarely inspect every single item. So there must be a tradeoff we're happy making in lots of industries.
Even if you're focussed on not missing anything, lower accuracy that comes at the cost of more false positives can be massively useful as you can then do a two step process (even with humans as the second step if you need). The goal of the first step is to ignore the 99% of totally fine items so you spend the costly process on just 1% of the items.
but i wouldnt stand on a soap box and yell that to the world without all that ^ nuance
but by the time i'm done with all that, i'm only preaching to the choir