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[โ€“] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is actually a perfect example of why to care about the difference between accuracy, precision, and recall. This algorithm has 0 precision and 0 recall, the only advantage being that it has 100% inverse recall (all negative results are correctly classified as negative).

Illustration of the difference between the two from my machine learning classes in college, which was obviously just the first google result: