The Model Was Never the Bottleneck: What Shipping a Text Classifier Into a Government Office Taught

Machine Learning Tech Brief By HackerNoon · Sep 25, 2026 · 10m

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We shipped a Word2Vec+LSTM over a more accurate BERT, then load testing showed the model was 0.3% of the wall-clock time. The queue was five human reviewers.

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