Bold Font Model Selection

Statistician: Do you ever use statistics? ML researcher: Nope. Never. Statistician: What about when reading a paper? ML: Nope. Never. Statistician: Ok. So if you’re reading an ML paper comparing lots of models, how do you know which one is the best? ML: Bold font.

A text-post joke shows a statistician asking a machine-learning researcher how they use statistics and choose the best model. The researcher says they simply pick the model highlighted in bold, parodying papers that present the preferred result in bold rather than explaining rigorous model selection. EN: A text-post joke shows a statistician asking a machine-learning researcher how they use statistics and choose the best model. The researcher says they simply pick the model highlighted in bold, parodying papers that present the preferred result in bold rather than explaining rigorous model selection.

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