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⭐️ Vocabulary / Semantics
Hi, i'm reading an article and there is this pharse. The main content is about machine learning and its saying that we need to validate macgine learning's results and we can't just press a button and accept the result. My problem is English is not my first language, so i want to know this pharse is a common expression and what dies it really mean?
Here is the text:
"At this point, you may seem to have addressed every issue and believe that the work is finished, but you must still validate the results. This chapter helps you discover why machine learning isn’t just a push-the-button-and-forget-it activity."
Thanks a lot
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It's a pretty direct way of conveying a message. It's not really a fixed phrase or any kind of an idiom. Years ago there was a similar phrase that was kind of frequent in discussion about computer software: "set it and forget it", but even that was pretty descriptive and is easy to understand from the words themselves.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/push-button
"Push-button" as a description means automated to the extent no thought or effort is required.
The writer is saying that we can't simply assume assume that machine learning is infallible and allow it to make you lazy.