Built an XGBoost return-risk scorer for Indian COD e-commerce. Turns out the naive baseline was almost as good, and that changed how I think about ML projects
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Been working on a return-risk scoring system for Indian e-commerce for the past few weeks and hit a few things that genuinely changed how I think about ML projects. Sharing what I learned, since I suspect a lot of students here are building similar things for hackathons or portfolio projects. Probl…
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- 2026-09-04 13:34 · r/learnmachinelearning
Built an XGBoost return-risk scorer for Indian COD e-commerce. Turns out the naive baseline was almost as good, and that changed how I think about ML projects