While Model Trains

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Exploring Bob Ross paintings

Emily Robinson

"If you’ve seen Bob Ross paintings, it’s probably not too surprising that 'tree' is the top feature."

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Understanding the beta distribution (using baseball statistics)

David Robinson

"The beta distribution is best for representing a probabilistic distribution of probabilities- the case where we don’t know what a probability is in advance, but we have some reasonable guesses."

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Two faces of overfitting

Zygmunt

Overfitting the validation set occurs when multiple settings are tested and compared using the same validation set repeatedly until satisfactory performance is achieved.

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