What is overfitting? A 2-minute visual guide. [OC]

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🔵 Overfitting 🔵

🧐 Overfitting is a common phenomenon the machine learning community tries to avoid like the plague. This is because when a model overfits it performs extremely well on the training data that it is provided but performs poorly and fails to generalize on unseen data.

💾 You can imagine overfitting with an analogy. When one assumes that the questions in the exercise session of a lecture are exactly what will be asked in …

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