I can’t stop thinking about Von Neumann’s elephant[1][2] when I read articles like this. I’m not a “denier” (and what an intellectually ugly term that is), but

I can’t stop thinking about Von Neumann’s elephant[1][2] when I read articles like this. I’m not a “denier” (and what an intellectually ugly term that is), but I do have my doubts about the predictive value of overfitted models. [1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elephant/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep... [2] https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FittingAnElephant/ https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FittingAnElephant/