Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews

Re:Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews by dheera on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:17PM (#25934853)

You also need to subtract the value those 8 people could create if they worked on something else.

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Re:Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews by Closi on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:19PM (#25934880)

You don't - If you do that you are double counting the cost of the engineers (If they were working on something else, you wouldn't account their salary against this optimisation).

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Re:Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews by arthurcolle on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:27PM (#25934978)

This is unknowable

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