Preamble Catalan Castellers are collaborating (Wikipedia) Availability of distributed code tracking tools and associated collaborative tools make life much easier in building collaborative scientific tools and products. This is now especially much more important in data science as it is...
Preamble Ebbinghaus (WikipediaMachine Learning (ML) is now a de-facto skill for every quantitative job and almost every industry embraced it, even though fundamentals of the field is not new at all. However, what does it mean to teach to a machine? Unfortunately, for even moderate technical people...
Kindly reposted to KDnuggets by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro with the title Understanding overfitting: an inaccurate meme in machine learning Preamble There is a lot of confusion among practitioners regarding the concept of overfitting. It seems like, a kind of an urban legend or a meme, a folklore...