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The scientific term for an overfit model is now "a needle".
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Could you elaborate ?
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im pretty sure this is to mock the famous NYT election prediction that was colloquially referred to as "the needle" because the nyt overfit their prediction model to match the polls
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Then what's a "haystack"?
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for me needle in science will be related to Buffon needle problem
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Coining overfitting as “a needle“ is in itself overfitting - possibly :)
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That makes the name even better ig
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