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		korkybuchek 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML There's a reason xgboost is still king in large companies.

3eb7988a1663 11 months ago [–]

That's the thing that blows my mind. Even if NN are some percentage better, the training+deployment headaches are not worth it unless you have a billion users where a 0.1% lift equates to millions of dollars.

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