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ROC curves and AUC: the number behind 'the detector works' Lesson

AUC measures how well a detector ranks positives above negatives across every possible threshold, which is why 0.5 means coin flip and why a high AUC can still hide a useless system.

Softmax and Cross-Entropy: How a Model Turns Scores Into a Confident Guess Lesson

Softmax turns a model's raw scores into a probability distribution, and cross-entropy measures how far that distribution is from the true answer; together they are the training target behind almost every classifier and language model.