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Unfortunately, even a holdout set doesn’t protect you from overfitting, it just takes longer. Of course having a holdout set is better than not having one. It’
by stephantul 1mo ago
Unfortunately, even a holdout set doesn’t protect you from overfitting, it just takes longer.
Of course having a holdout set is better than not having one. It’s just not a silver bullet.
- frumiousirc 1mo agoThat is not what I read from danluu's words. He merely stated in the prompt that there is a holdout set and did not iterate to minimize error against the holdout set. In a prior attempt he prompted with only "don't overfit" to ill effect on the holdout eval. Did I misread?