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  1. sethaurus · · focus · HN ↗
    I have to be honest. While this is obviously a smart and useful idea, it misses one of the core features of Jev: its confidence scores. Partial confidence could easily be mapped to fractional spaces, using unicode characters like U+2009: THIN SPACE. As it stands, this package is not harnessing the full power of Jev.
    1. preommr · · focus · HN ↗
      > its confidence scores

      important to note that the "confidence" score is... maybe not what people think it is - kind of useless, and just a convenience step from the probabilities.

      from the docs: "confidence is a statistic computed from the probability distribution the answer already gives you." [0] I actually encourage people to visit the docs because it has a specific page on this with a little applet to really make this clear.

      [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.typesafe.ai&#x2F;confidence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.typesafe.ai&#x2F;confidence

      1. wongarsu · · focus · HN ↗
        What else do people think it is? If Typesafe had found a way to measure arbitrary AI results against objective reality (past, future and present) they&#x27;d either be making a killing on the stock market or working for the NRO, not publishing that as a confidence value on their API
        1. preommr · · focus · HN ↗
          Well I think there&#x27;s an expectation that it&#x27;s similar to the probability score, something that&#x27;s outputted by the model itself, and so there&#x27;s some level of &quot;intelligence&quot; (e.g. being able to recognize if the subject matter is relevant to the data it&#x27;s been trained on, or as an accumulation of errors e.g. it couldn&#x27;t figure out the question).
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