My progress was 0.5% or 7.3%, depending on which denominator the report used
A classification pass over a large corpus prints its progress. Here are two numbers from the same run, in the same line: judged=8/1601 judged_atoms=4569/62613 Eight of sixteen hundred. Four and a half thousand of sixty-two thousand. Both are "how much have we judged", both are correct, and they are not the same question. The first counts files . The second counts items inside files . Eight files…
The classification report provided two numbers from the same run: judged=8/1601 and judged_atoms=4569/62613. These represent how much progress has been made in two different ways. The first number, judged=8/1601, counts files and indicates that eight documents have been processed out of sixteen hundred total files. This figure suggests early progress and sets a low expectation.
The second number, judged_atoms=4569/62613, counts items inside files and shows that 4,569 items out of 62,613 total items have been processed. This translates to seven percent progress, which may seem like a significant achievement. However, the true honesty of the report lies in clearly stating the unit being measured, whether it is files or items within files, before providing the numerical outcome.
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