4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
opinion claim

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”
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