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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
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The Importance of False Positives in Algorithms
The real critical part is how do you tweak this algorithm to actually fit what we care about capturing? And what is that cost? Right, because the question is really, what would that cost for the electrician to go back and report it? And then, well, how would they report that? And where's that data stored? You get into this kind of cascading effects of what your algorithm actually mandates to the business. It's not a trivial problem. That's actually where the real ingenuity and kind of problem solving comes in and kind of tweaking that outcome to actually be effective.
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