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by mynegation 1105 days ago
Did you mean to say signal-to-noise [ratio] is _low_? Meaning that you get way too much noise for the amount of signal. Or did you mean to say it needs to be high (I.e. low noise) to be useful?
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For every good fitness app that does what it promises (-> signal) there are at least 50 bad fitness apps that promise too much and let you pre-pay for the (broken) features you wanted, money you'll never get back (-> noise).

The amount of noise in Fitness apps is so high, nobody really dares to try out small apps. Therefore cool implementations from small devs like the workout-correction might stay unnoticed for years.

Right, and SNR is signal dividied by noise.
i did mean low, yes :)