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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by ijustlovemath on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:40PM (#43007384)
This is the biggest risk of AI imo; almost by definition your thoughts regress to the mean when using it
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by encipriano on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:10AM (#43010622)
This is nonsense. You need to double check the answers, spot mistakes, adapt the code to your needs and go to the sources it lists to learn rapidly about that particular thing.
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by ijustlovemath on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:14AM (#43012377)
it's fundamentally how these things work; learning token distribution given prior context. The expected output over time is the mean value of that distribution. Regression to the mean is the danger I'm talking about.
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