It seems to me the utility of the 'good' 50% depends entirely upon your ability to recognize it.
How do you know when to dig through those obscure manuals?
It seems to me that it'd be more useful when:
a) I don't care whether the text says things which are not true
Write me a poem about ...
b) I care, and will have to verify it's results, but that cost is worth it
Generate some test data ...
I think we're at a very dangerous intersection between an apparent decline in American's ability to detect nonsense and an automated way to create convincing nonsense.
This. What a powerful tool - try to get people to believe what you want, but if you fail, steer the landing so it just further adds to the confusion, rather than being evidence of dishonesty.
I think given the gravity of the atrocities being committed, and the imminent threat to democracy, things like audits should be a distant secondary concern.
I'm certainly not concerned about the dollars being used to fight Putin because I think the costs of not doing otherwise would far outweigh them.
When we see any indication whatsoever of abuse/lost weapons/etc, then we can discuss audits. So far there has been not one single photo anywhere of any US-provided weapons leaking from Ukraine.
That is not entirely true. According to Ukrainian sources (Kiev Independent) there were at least 2 high profile incidents. 1 - US supplied weapons popping up in Finland, 2 - someone tried to ship a helicopter out of Odesa. But this is not what I am saying at all. How would you even know how funds are being used? A manufacturer can hike prices of say ammo 10x, and as result Ukraine would get 10x less of it
Not sure if you’re shilling on purpose but 1) no, Kiev Independent never reported on foreign supplied guns in Finland, “New Voice of Ukraine” did, using a statement by Finnish FBI (NBI) that was mischaracterized and explicitly corrected by NBI about 7 days ago. They say they are watching closely but have no evidence of what you’re alleging. 2) Couldn’t find anything about the helicopter, link?
You can “just ask questions” like that one about any item in any budget on the planet with the net effect of stalling everything we need to accomplish as a society, so I don’t really give that approach much credence. No reason to suspect a particularly bad or particularly important instance here and it’s especially suspect coming from people who’ve already indicated they don’t support US involvement in such conflicts.
Can anyone recommend a paper or book that approaches this from first principles, e.g. are some limitations/abilities due to mathematical structures such as functions (folders), relations (tags), etc?
This is not the challenge. The challenge is that you think you can do an 'almost-as-good' job of data integrity as the RDBMS designers.
Even if you could, you will not always be the person that maintains that code.