[ianhorn]

I saw a talk on Snorkel a few years back, so I don't remember perfectly, but it seemed to be an iterative process. It's a tool for you to build and refine simple rules. If you have ingredients, a simple heuristic "<number> <units> <ingredient>" will get a lot of them, but there are tons of edge cases. With more heuristics, you might get lots of those, and so. I think it was a tool to help you explore and iterate on those heuristic labeling functions quickly. Then you can label the stuff that's hard in a more expensive way or something. I thought of it as noisily hand labeling sets of examples at a time rather than single examples at a time. This is all memory from a random conference talk or paper or something years ago so take it with some big grains of salt. I do clearly remember thinking it seemed really cool at the time.