Overfitting
Suppose you want to predict the winner of the next presidential election (seems like a good thing to have advance warning for, right?). You decide to »
Offsetting Behavior
Suppose I told you that putting on a seatbelt makes you drive more dangerously. "Nonsense!," you might think, "why would wearing a seatbelt »
Plausibility Arguments
You come home one day to find your very angry roommate pointing at an empty space on the kitchen table. "Look at this table!" »
Path Dependence
If you drive to work in the morning, you probably do so in a gasoline-powered car. Compared against the electric cars that actually exist (versus maybe »
TCP Shorts: Premature Optimisation, Sort-of
Imagine you're working on a big essay. You're still on th first draft, and you know from previous experience that at least »