Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous...
by ctlby on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:26AM
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> But you are going to get an error rate, and probably a high one in the noisy real world.
They're clearly not implementing a minimum-error rate classifier. Which isn't to defend their choice of loss function (it's not 0-1, but beyond that I have no idea); just to point out the inanity of some of the comments claiming the NSA isn't aware of base rates.
They're clearly not implementing a minimum-error rate classifier. Which isn't to defend their choice of loss function (it's not 0-1, but beyond that I have no idea); just to point out the inanity of some of the comments claiming the NSA isn't aware of base rates.