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by jacksoncarter 5803 days ago
Imagine a dataset where the inputs are to be in a range from 1-100, but for some reason unknown to the programmers when the program was written, there is a value of 4,000.

In the real world, a human must decide what to do with that 4,000. A computer would crash or throw an error or something like that even though the data may actually be valid.