Tag: Overfitting
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Quantized by Culture
A stylistic glitch reveals a deeper pattern: AI systems prioritize repetition over intent, echoing what’s most reinforced rather than what’s most accurate. When culture repeats itself often enough, it becomes structure—even when better alternatives are quietly lost.
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Adding Epicycles
In scientific modeling, adding epicycles refers to augmenting a model’s structure to accommodate unexplained data. This practice, which has its roots in ancient geocentric theories of astronomy, often compromises both the model’s simplicity and its predictive accuracy.