Please recommend me cheap (in brain-time and text length) ways to represent different levels of confidence in English texts and speech. More concretely, I want English words and ways to use them in sentences without modifying the sentence’s structure. Examples:
This is a reason to think that SGD-like algorithms can’t learn it. → This is a reason to think that maybe SGD-like algorithms can’t learn it. // sounds kinda bad, I wouldn’t write it like that for people who are picky about style; also, what other words work here instead of maybe?
because the inputs and the parameters are noisy → because likely the inputs and the parameters are noisy // seems unclear
Non-examples:
SGD-like algorithms can’t learn this circuit because the inputs and the parameters are noisy during training. → It’s plausible that SGD-like algorithms can’t learn this circuit, because it’s plausible that the inputs and the parameters are noisy during training. // the structure of the rest of the sentence had to be modified, also I had to spend brain-time to think about how to formulate this. also it’s very long
Please recommend me cheap (in brain-time and text length) ways to represent different levels of confidence in English texts and speech. More concretely, I want English words and ways to use them in sentences without modifying the sentence’s structure. Examples:
This is a reason to think that SGD-like algorithms can’t learn it. → This is a reason to think that maybe SGD-like algorithms can’t learn it. // sounds kinda bad, I wouldn’t write it like that for people who are picky about style; also, what other words work here instead of maybe?
because the inputs and the parameters are noisy → because likely the inputs and the parameters are noisy // seems unclear
Non-examples:
SGD-like algorithms can’t learn this circuit because the inputs and the parameters are noisy during training. → It’s plausible that SGD-like algorithms can’t learn this circuit, because it’s plausible that the inputs and the parameters are noisy during training. // the structure of the rest of the sentence had to be modified, also I had to spend brain-time to think about how to formulate this. also it’s very long
Not sure this is what you ask for but it seems relevant: What probability do people attach to likelihood adjectives?: https://hbr.org/2018/07/if-you-say-something-is-likely-how-likely-do-people-think-it-is
Being explicit about levels of confidence inherently needs brain-time because you have to think about what your level of confidence is.