A thing that continually fascinates me is the rediscovery that alerting used in modern technology (not just in software stacks) will always represent an *unsolvable* challenge with respect to design (of the alerts).
I keep coming back to the paradox that comes with attention wrt false positives, via @ddwoods2:
“...how can one skillfully ignore a signal that should not shift attention within the current context, without first processing it -- in which case it hasn’t been ignored.”
“...how can one skillfully ignore a signal that should not shift attention within the current context, without first processing it -- in which case it hasn’t been ignored.”
Complexity wrt to the anomaly detection mechanisms, the alert’s representation to the receiver, the breadth of the detecting agent’s perspective, the dynamics of what is being sensed...all contribute to situations where false positives will never go to zero.
Wild, right? Take a look at this and tell me that @ddwoods2 didn’t nail this in...(checks notes)...1995!
researchgate.net/publication/40…
researchgate.net/publication/40…
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