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153 - Do You Look at the Guy Who Cut You Off In Traffic?

No Dumb Questions

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The Problem of Overfitting Statistical Models

Overfitting is when you have trained your statistical model on a data set that doesn't necessarily represent what's happening in the future. We saw this a lot in rocketry when you test rockets and stuff like that. But if a manufacturer changes the construction techniques, it completely changed the material properties of what we were doing.

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