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overgenearlisation

Why the simplest explanation is always the best

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PreambleThe simplest explanation is always the best among the explanations that are representative.  It is called the principle of parsimony,  Occam's razor. It is the bedrock of scientific enlightenment. There is a recent development that people start to do a category error to discard this...

The concept of overgeneralisation and goodness of rank : Overfitting is not about comparing training and test learning curves

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Preamble     Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles  (Wikipedia)Unfortunately, it is still thought in machine learning classes that overfitting can be detected by comparing training and test learning curves on the single model's performance.  The origins of this misconception is unknown. Looks like an...