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erichocean
4643 days ago
I understood it to mean that it had 1/4 the error rates they were previously seeing.
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dllthomas
4643 days ago
Huh, that's not even one I considered. I guessed 1/5, so the
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was 4x the final value. Either way it's wrong - "dropped by X%" should be calculated as (original - final) / original.
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apurvamehta
4643 days ago
This is exactly right :)
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caf
4643 days ago
Then it dropped by 75%.
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apurvamehta
4643 days ago
Yes. It was a blunder. The post has been updated to reflect this.
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