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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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).

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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