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[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That was a joy. Thank you for sharing

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Check this shit out (fig 1).

Lmao there's so much gold. I got frustrated for him while reading it.

[–] Benjaben 8 points 2 days ago

That line, and then just by instinct going to Fig 1, and seeing its caption...incredible lol

[–] credo 6 points 2 days ago

I had a hard time reading. Could not stop laughing enough to get past the fourth paragraph. Sides hurt, would not recommend.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Germanium My Ass

[–] CodexArcanum 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash.

Honestly, there wasn't all that much cash to roll in and there's less all the time now. Plus, if you think busted equipment is bad, wait until I tell you about inheriting legacy code.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

From what I heard, the guy actually did change to a CS major shortly after writing this.

[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's the line of best fit, not the line of good fit

[–] macarthur_park 37 points 2 days ago

Line of “least bad” fit

[–] merari42 9 points 2 days ago

Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago
[–] negativenull 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One Line to rule them all
One Line to find them
One Line to bring them all
and in the data bind them

[–] _stranger_ 13 points 2 days ago
[–] merari42 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Machine Learning enthusiasts: Why settle for linear regression when you can deploy a Gradient-Boosted Random Deep Neural Net Surface Vector Cluster that consumes the entire power of Iceland to trace a perfect ∞-dimensional hypersphere around those blue points? Overparameterization is the future!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

One line best-fits all

[–] reinei 18 points 2 days ago

Fine! I'll use a second order polynomial to fit this instead. But that's the last order I'm willing to go to!

[–] badbytes 15 points 2 days ago

Oh, it's trending up. That's progress!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, some students of mines actually put some figure like that in al lab report...

[–] Whelks_chance 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You asked for a line, they gave you a line, what more can be asked for?

We used to intentionally add wrong data to our datasets so we could circle it afterwards, declare it "outlying data" and gain the extra points for spotting and documenting it.

I'm not bitter about my formal education, honest...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We used to intentionally add wrong data to our datasets so we could circle it afterwards, declare it "outlying data" and gain the extra points for spotting and documenting it.

Nice trick!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you're having proportion of explained variance problems I feel bad for you son,
I got ninety nine problems but a fit ain't one.

(⌐■_■)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like a successfully trained learning model, to me. (Sarcasm)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Dat spread tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

They'll also try to linear fit even the most obvious exponential curve.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I don't know why you get credit at all; I do all the work. - Excel

[–] yesman 4 points 2 days ago

And if that doesn't work, there's always factor analysis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

How can you argue with a word like "best' anyway ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Probably minimal surface ellipse.