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dmurraytoday at 12:18 PM1 replyview on HN

The abstract does say

> limitations, principally the small number of tournaments available for validation and the risk of in-sample weight selection

But I agree this model is no more valuable than Paul the Octopus.


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mcphagetoday at 12:34 PM

That almost makes it worse—like they're vaguely aware that training too heavily on too small a data set makes badly trained models, but are unaware that it has a name and is an actual identified problem.

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