(computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out
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I have a lot of hope for agent based modeling, but the method can't overcome gigo.
From the economist.com
Human ingenuity is something that is never programmed into these models GIGO.
From the newscientist.com
There is no real scientific evidence to back up their claim, apart from manufactured GIGO computer models.
From the independent.co.uk
Likewise GIGO is the result from school administrators who are sympathetic to the teachers anti govt.
From the nbr.co.nz
Buttonwood, if the data you are looking at is not comparable, then any theory is going to suffer from GIGO.
From the economist.com
The problem with all of these reports, of course, is what computer programmers call GIGO-Garbage In, Garbage Out.
From the economist.com
The data capture is already GIGO.
From the forbes.com
Add to that the usual rather arbitrary and questionable way in which Goldman and Miller count the number of vaccines in multivalent vaccines, and truly we have another GIGO epic.
From the scienceblogs.com
To quote Pogo, %u201CWe have met the enemy and he is us.%u201D We do not have the time or the luxury to lie to anyone especially ourselves, there is an old adage in software circles GIGO.
From the latimes.com
- (computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out
- Garbage In, Garbage Out (abbreviated to GIGO, coined as a pun on the phrase First-In, First-Out) is a phrase in the field of computer science or information and communication technology. ...
- Garbage in, garbage out.
- Garbage In, Garbage Out. If the input data is wrong or inaccurate, the output data will be inaccurate or wrong. GIGO is often the problem with data entered by hand into computer systems.
- (Garbage-in-Garbage-Out) High quality source video encodes better than low quality. If there is noise in the video, the process will do its best to encode the noise, using available bandwidth to send unwanted artifacts. ...
- A contraction of "Garbage In, Garbage Out," which emphasizes that information systems will produce erroneous and invalid output when provided with erroneous and invalid input data or instructions.
- The abbreviation for Garbage In Garbage Out, being the axiom that faulty data fed into a computer will result in distorted information. No valid conclusion can be drawn from invalid premisses. See debug, kludge, patch, RTDM. ...
- A phrase referring to the fact that the footage you output can only be as good as the footage you input. If you shoot poor quality footage, you're going to get a poor quality output.
- Garbage in, garbage out. Referring to images that start out as poor quality, print as poor quality. There is no magical fairy wand that makes them better.
