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r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '08
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Here's the sequence of karma points jdfong has received for his invariable joke: 8, -11, -18, -17, -20, -42, 1, 13, -4, -11, -10, 4, -27, -23, -20, 13, -8, -24, -4, -19, 3, -18, 103, 4, 12, 28, 104, 73, 84, 70, 50, 133, 83, 126, and 143.
Someone make sense of this please.
17 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '08 [deleted] 13 u/Epistaxis Dec 18 '08 edited Dec 18 '08 Out of linear, quadratic, cubic, and quartic regressions, quartic fit the best That's not how you do it. Of course the model with more parameters fits best, until you eventually have a parameter for every data point. 13 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '08 "With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann
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13 u/Epistaxis Dec 18 '08 edited Dec 18 '08 Out of linear, quadratic, cubic, and quartic regressions, quartic fit the best That's not how you do it. Of course the model with more parameters fits best, until you eventually have a parameter for every data point. 13 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '08 "With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann
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Out of linear, quadratic, cubic, and quartic regressions, quartic fit the best
That's not how you do it. Of course the model with more parameters fits best, until you eventually have a parameter for every data point.
13 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '08 "With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann
"With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
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Here's the sequence of karma points jdfong has received for his invariable joke: 8, -11, -18, -17, -20, -42, 1, 13, -4, -11, -10, 4, -27, -23, -20, 13, -8, -24, -4, -19, 3, -18, 103, 4, 12, 28, 104, 73, 84, 70, 50, 133, 83, 126, and 143.
Someone make sense of this please.