Kaggle Posts Mislead Beginners on Small Data with Unreplicable High Scores
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The post criticizes Kaggle tutorials for using complex techniques that overfit small datasets, leading to unrealistically high scores, with commenters expressing skepticism about the novelty of this observation.
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BrenBarn
about 2 months ago
Is this just complaining the people upvoted tutorials that use unnecessarily complex techniques and overfit a small dataset? That's hardly news.
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