@raw_works: If only I were a huge bank with millions of messages a day, I would definitely hire Maxime
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The tweet discusses when and how to finetune a specialized classifier model that is better than Opus, faster than Jev, and runs on user devices.
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If only I were a huge bank with millions of messages a day, I would definitely hire Maxime
Maxime Rivest 🧙♂️🦙🐧 (@MaximeRivest): Here is when and how to finetune a specialized decision model (aka classifier) that is better then Opus, faster then Jev, and runs on user’s devices.
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