(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. 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. A totally awesome and amazing guy with a feminine Xbox live gamer tag; probably a good boyfriend to have in the end of it all
by Him hitachi October 5, 2013
Get the silver unicornmug. by I'm the one and only May 29, 2021
Get the Da silveredmug. When you grab a female's long pussy hair and use them as a handle to eat the pussy like a fox burying themself in a den.
by Moseswaters October 22, 2019
Get the Silver Foxmug. A sex toy lurking in the drawer of mother goose, which was found and exploited one day and baby goose got a face full.
by Rick James April 14, 2004
Get the silver bulletmug. It is when a man fingers the girl till she cums then rubs that all over his hands and bitch slaps that whore.
by thefix January 17, 2015
Get the silver slapmug.