{"id":463,"date":"2020-03-03T03:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2020-03-03T03:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:04:50","slug":"overfitting-is-a-bad-idea-lets-avoid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/overfitting-is-a-bad-idea-lets-avoid-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Overfitting is a bad idea, let&#8217;s avoid it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently published a two-part post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/ibm-watson\">IBM Watson publication<\/a> titled &#8220;Why Overfitting is a Bad Idea and How to Avoid It&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/ibm-watson\/why-overfitting-is-a-bad-idea-and-how-to-avoid-it-part-1-overfitting-in-general-b8a3f9ffcf66\">Part 1: Overfitting in General<\/a> introduces the general topic of overfitting with a simple example and some diagrams for how to think about overfitting.  Fitness concepts are introduced with two-dimensional examples for you to mentally model how higher-dimensional models work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/ibm-watson\/why-overfitting-is-a-bad-idea-and-how-to-avoid-it-part-2-overfitting-in-virtual-assistants-a30f4d999adc\">Part 2: Overfitting in Virtual Assistants<\/a> adapts this mental model for overfitting to virtual assistants.  This post helps you understand why adding more training data to your classifier is not always the best move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently published a two-part post on the IBM Watson publication titled &#8220;Why Overfitting is a Bad Idea and How to Avoid It&#8221; Part 1: Overfitting in General introduces the general topic of overfitting with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}