But you were given "information about categories", Anything under 3 should be an auto-reject because it does not meet the standard.

"standard" usually implies that it's an outside rule from a regulatory body/certification agency that you need to conform to.

It's such a weird question to ask in the first place.

I dont think standard usually means codified. It is also frequently used to mean typical, or within expectation.

It this example, outside law or regulation on standard creativity and utility seem pretty unlikely.

There is also a pretty big difference between standard (singular) and standards (plural), where the latter is more likely to imply a set of minimum requirements.

The very first line item (Scale number 1) uses "standards" plural: "Far below standards"

weird

kind of reminds me of "Strong Ideas, Held Lightly"

because 1 \and 0 = 0 same as 1 * 0 = 0 and 1 \or 0 = 1 same as 1 + 0 = 1

Choosing false = 0 and true = 1 is putting the cart before the horse.

It is equally true that 1*0=0 is the same as false|true=true, and 0+1=1 is the same as true&false=false.

But it is also not true that 1+1=1, so it is probably wrong to equate 'or' with '+'. The operation has the wrong properties.

As someone who sometimes dabbles in electronics, 0 = true makes a lot of intuitive sense to me. You have your pin with an open collector, your pull-up resistor, and “true” (as in, it is true that the transistor is conducting) pulls the voltage to ground, which is 0.

As someone who uses a Unix shell, 0 = true makes a lot of intuitive sense to me.

  $ true; echo $?
  0
  $ false; echo $?
  1

You can interpret 0 and 1 as probabilities. 1 + 1 = 1 in this case makes sense because P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B). You can interpret "A or B" as a set union and "A and B" as a set intersection. Of course it's easy to draw a three-way correspondence between Boolean arithmetic, the events represented by the empty set and the whole space, and sets within some universe because all the objects are so simple, but these correspondences also generalize well to systems with more than two possible values. The ease of generalizing makes me think it's not just a matter of coincidence or convention that we have 0 <=> false.

You've just moved the point where we make the arbitrary choice to here:

> You can interpret "A or B" as a set union and "A and B" as a set intersection.

{True, False, Or, And} and {False, True, And, Or} are two different naming conventions for the exact same structure: the unique boolean algebra on two elements.

A union B is defined as the set of things that are in A or in B; A intersect B is defined as the set of things that are in A and in B. So I don't really see it as an arbitrary choice.

A bit unrelated, but one could open any binary file as text. With enough training data, could an llm just learn the format?