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emil-lplast Thursday at 7:03 AM4 repliesview on HN

Please always present the confusion matrix. One number is (almost) useless.

I can detect 100% by

    def detect(x):
        Return True

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dtechlast Thursday at 7:11 AM

They only had positive samples, so they could and did only report true and false positives

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directevolvelast Thursday at 8:34 AM

There were no healthy controls, so they can only measure sensitivity, not specificity in this design.

patateslast Thursday at 7:15 AM

100% of the titles are not specific enough on sensitive matters.

rich_sashalast Thursday at 7:05 AM

This fails actually (assuming it's Python), "return" needs smaller case "r". But you could rewrite it in Haskell or Rust for safety.