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Ah yes, regression (lemmy.world)
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[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 168 points 1 year ago

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

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Line of “least bad” fit

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

[-] frezik@midwest.social 132 points 1 year ago
[-] Corr@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

That was a joy. Thank you for sharing

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Check this shit out (fig 1).

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

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] credo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Germanium My Ass

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

This relation between temperature and resistivity can be shown to be exponential in certain temperature regimes by waving your hands and chanting "to first order."

for some reason this is the line that got me

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

One line best-fits all

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!

[-] reinei@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] prex@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago
[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year 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!

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

(⌐■_■)

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Dat spread tho

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Gaussian: "Squint."

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Probably minimal surface ellipse.

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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