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Cross-validation is a technique for assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent data set.
You are not a statistic; you are an individual.
The law of small numbers is a form of overconfidence.
Correlation does not imply causation, but it can suggest it.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
Overfitting occurs when a model learns the training data too well, including noise and outliers, leading to poor generalization.
The extinction rate is now 100 times higher than the background rate.