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Avi Chawlaยท2025-10-25 06:31

You're in an ML Engineer interview at Apple.The interviewer asks:"Two models are 88% accurate.- Model A is 89% confident.- Model B is 99% confident.Which one would you pick?"You: "Any would work since both have same accuracy."Interview over.Here's what you missed:Modern neural networks can be misleading.They are overconfident in their predictions.For instance, I saw an experiment that used the CIFAR-100 dataset to compare LeNet with ResNet.LeNet produced:- Accuracy = ~0.55- Average confidence = ~0.54ResNet ...