Tiny classifiers need no hosting — you can even train them on a phone
max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-27
The author points out that if your specialized decision model (a classifier) is small enough, no hosting is needed at all — it is even trainable directly on a phone. A practical reminder for developers looking to ship small discriminative models at near-zero cost.
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