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The speaker suspects calibration is underused because people use models as fast classifiers without using their probability, calibration, or confidence estimates.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“actually I think calibration is probably the under like people are just using it as a very fast classifier but they're actually not even using the probability or calibration estimates or confidence estimates”Play from 27:54Report a misattribution
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