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by pgorczak 700 days ago
“That means the conventional predictions are largely inference—and worse, they result in unquantified uncertainty.”

Wild claim given the fact that Gaussian process regression / Kriging was invented in the 1960s in geoscience to do exactly what the article claims only their models do: “quantify uncertainty, which in turn guides our data collection, as the most uncertain rocks often represent the most valuable ones to sample”