alt Hacker NewsThere's a significant engineering cost to having a custom classifier.
An off-the-shelf API has way less friction, if the results are good enough why bother?
There's a significant engineering cost to having a custom classifier.
An off-the-shelf API has way less friction, if the results are good enough why bother?
For this particular case, it's probably worth it because a dermatologist visit is $200. If I were the NHS or Kaiser, I'd partner with other integrated insurance and service providers to collect as much training data as possible and fund classifier development.