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Equation 5 · Part 1 · How AI and Cybersecurity Actually Work

Symbol p

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What this part means

the when.

Its job in the formula

p is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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When p is small, which it almost always is for genuine, successful misuse against a well-defended system, precision collapses toward zero even for a detector with a very low false-positive rate, simply because the pool of benign traffic the false-positive rate applies to is so much larger than the pool of real events.

The passage around this formula

When p is small, which it almost always is for genuine, successful misuse against a well-defended system, precision collapses toward zero even for a detector with a very low false-positive rate, simply because the pool of benign traffic the false-positive rate applies to is so much larger than the pool…

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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.

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