Flashes of Panic

So the internet blowhard says, a common, open data format for training data would “open the doors to … comparison of training data … [and] free developers from creating end-to-end solutions”.

And the cynic says, “Yeah? Name one example.”

And the internet blowhard blinks, then says, “Imagine if the National Runner’s Health Study didn’t send a paper questionnaire, but a little utility application which extracted the appropriate answers from your log data?”

Imagine if that application could “ask” your training data specific, detailed questions, prompt you for information only if it couldn’t find the data itself, and then “phoned home” the anonymized data?

I think you could even get a grant to write such a utility, if the data formats permitted it.