Day 82: Congrats, it’s an overfit model

There I was patiently waiting for my data to finish being processed, an hour, two, time kept moving as did the little animation letting me know that the algorithm was still doing its thing. Then it was done, I had a new, more complete model and it was glorious… until it wasn’t.

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November 9, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: binary classifiers, communication, computer science, Education, machine learning, PhD, research, school, SciComm, science, STEM | Leave a comment