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An amazing post, Zoe. Congratulation.
Mohammad
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Outstanding post Zoe, I am glad that this nice project has been published!
I think it motivates and demonstrates essential machine learning and classification concepts very neatly.
However I can’t resist to warn the general public, that – as Zoe pointed out in the first sentences – poisonous mushrooms are often deadly, so be extremely careful even with a high accuracy model.
To take into account of this asymmetry of classes, a natural enhancement might be to tweak the UtilityFunction of the model:
Similar to the examples in Etienne Bernard’s book:
Or one can be just more conservative in their mushroom picking practices 
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