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And here I was expecting things like 'overfitting' and 'not having a holdout set or at least crossvalidating'.

Yes, I didn't find this helpful at all. Also, it needs editing.

Hackernews is moving towards Yahoo news.

You mean there are people whose machine learning homework in college/grad-school didn't threaten a zero for failing to cross-validate?

Well damn. What did I spend all those late nights in front of a bleak MATLAB environment for, some kind of best practices?! </tongue in cheek>

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