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pavpanchekhayesterday at 1:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

Author here! Yes, the float distribution isn't what you want in practice, but distribution selector isn't really the right thing either, because a low probability bad result can still be pretty bad! Hence the range selector; the float distribution is good at picking extreme values that trigger FP error.

We usually recommend looking for 90%+ accuracy or carefully examining the accuracy plot