(noun)
parameters and/or random noise added to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
(verb)
to add spurious adjustable parameters and/or random noise to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
to artificially inflate your estimate of a very unlikely event occurring to ~30% with no justification within your model, simply so you can cover your ass should the unlikely event occur, all while retaining the option to claim that you predicted, with better than 2/3rd probability, that the unlikely event would not occur.
parameters and/or random noise added to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
(verb)
to add spurious adjustable parameters and/or random noise to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
to artificially inflate your estimate of a very unlikely event occurring to ~30% with no justification within your model, simply so you can cover your ass should the unlikely event occur, all while retaining the option to claim that you predicted, with better than 2/3rd probability, that the unlikely event would not occur.
“After realizing her model to predict economic growth didn’t include enough details, and was therefore predicting too narrow a range of possible outcomes, she nate-silver-thirty (ed) her model to get a more satisfactory appearing distribution of outcomes.”
by stats_definer August 28, 2020
Get the nate-silver-thirtymug. by I'm the one and only May 29, 2021
Get the Da silveredmug. On August 21st, 2024, Twitter user StarlyCactus created an edit of the "Hold up his writing is this fire" meme involving the highly realistic king pig from angry birds, and titled "Hold up his nugget is this silver" in reference to the popular Silver Silver_nugget image.
This edit would later be posted to tenor in gif format, accumulating thousands of uses.
This edit would later be posted to tenor in gif format, accumulating thousands of uses.
by Zovaqueer December 7, 2024
Get the His nugget is this silver?mug. What you pretend-irritably toss back at present company when he "foreign languages you" with a casual request for or an acknowledgment of your assistance. (Obviously this would not be da case wif Gomez Addams, though, since he actually ENJOYS when Morticia speaks French, and so he would never feel irritable or resentful if she uttered thus to him.)
Person A, collecting small dropped objects from a pebbly beach, and passing them one-by-one to Person B to hold for him: S'il vous plait?
Person B, obligingly accepting said items from Person A, but feeling a bit disgusted at seemingly being utilized as merely a portable storage-unit: Silver plates?!
Person B, obligingly accepting said items from Person A, but feeling a bit disgusted at seemingly being utilized as merely a portable storage-unit: Silver plates?!
by QuacksO August 10, 2024
Get the Silver plates?!mug. by Bullscomp April 19, 2014
Get the silver linermug. When a Model UN delegate performs a sexual favor to another Model UN delegate to gain support in the committee room. Similar to a golden gavel, which is when a delegate performs a sexual favor on the chair to gain an advantage in the room.
“Bro why is Albania voting for everything that Mexico proposes all of a sudden”
“I don’t know dude, must be a silver gavel”
“I don’t know dude, must be a silver gavel”
by takeaguess3000 May 27, 2023
Get the silver gavelmug. by Deezbutts439 December 20, 2021
Get the bay anjali silvermug.