June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
32h 7m
English
Whether we’re a person or a computer, learning general rules about a subject from a finite set of examples is a tough challenge. If we don’t pay enough attention to the details of the examples, our rules will be too general to be of much use when we’re considering new data. On the other hand, if we pay too much attention to the details in the examples, our rules will be too specific, and again we’ll do a bad job at evaluating new data.
These phenomena are respectively called underfitting and overfitting. The more common and troublesome problem of the two is overfitting, and if unchecked, it can leave us with ...
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