01 / 01 Shipped — Finished, or finished enough that the write-up is about what it does. 2025
Sentiment classifier
Three ways to tell a good movie review from a bad one, and why the two transformers lost to the simplest model until they were allowed to read the ending.
- Classifies a review as positive or negative
- Explains what the simple model learned
- Lets the transformers read the whole review
- 87.5%
- DistilBERT, reading the ending
- 75.5%
- MiniLM, whole review
- 84.5%
- TF-IDF baseline