Lab Notes
Research, model updates, benchmarks and candy news. We publish our methods, including where they fall short.
Palate taxonomy v0.5: new type names, and how the lab classifies a palate
We renamed the six palate types so the names describe what we measure, added a plain-English meaning to every report, and moved to answer-weighted classification. Here is the full method.
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