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Weak signal-to-noise ratio in the task description. Please improve and remove this message.

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Revision as of 19:25, 12 December 2015 (view source) rosettacode>Gerard Schildberger m (→‎Why stated like that?: inserted a (missing) blank between "result" and "w.r.t".) ← Older edit		Latest revision as of 13:20, 20 November 2016 (view source) Hout (talk \| contribs) (Weak signal-to-noise ratio in the task description. Please improve and remove this message.)
Line 1: ==Weak signal-to-noise ratio in the task description. Please improve and remove this message== : The quality of a formulation is the amount it reveals, divided by the processing effort which it imposes on readers. In short – the ratio of signal to noise. : The ratio in this task description, on the issue labelled 'flexibility', is demonstrably just a bit too weak and dysfunctional (in its present form) to actually work. : The significant number of "please XYZ and remove this message" notices on this page are are expressions of: :'''1.''' Deficiencies in the task formulation :'''2.''' Limited awareness of those deficiencies on the part of the author(s) of that formulation :'''3.''' Projection of those deficiencies, and that lack of awareness, onto the hapless contributors of solutions. : I think it might be constructive to summarily remove all the current 'compliance' notices. (The effort that would be required to work out what is really being asked for beneath that weak formulation seems rather unlikely to prove even remotely commensurate with the rewards). : If there is felt to be any real light under the 'flexibility?' bushel, then perhaps the bushel needs to be removed by a fresh rewording, (with a better ratio of signal-to-noise) and a couple of examples. [[User:Hout\|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout\|talk]]) 13:20, 20 November 2016 (UTC) ==Why stated like that?== Remember those maths essay problems from school? Remember your teacher saying "It's not just getting the right answer that is important - it's how you got to it that gets the full marks"? Well this, I hope, is that kind of problem.<br>The idea is for examples to be able to vary names, numbers, constraints; and for the example's problem statement and answers to be easy to recognise from the task's problem description (or variants of). <br>If someone wants to implement natural language processing, be my guest. If someone wants to use a syntax more familiar to constraint programmers then that can be done too, (but think of the likely audience). --[[User:Paddy3118\|Paddy3118]] 08:37, 25 June 2011 (UTC)