JoshuaZ comments on How to pick your categories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 November 2010 07:22:23PM *  4 points [-]

Another related problem that might be worth talking about is overfitting. Deciding what is noise and what isn't noise and the related problem of how finely grained categories should be can be tough.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2010 07:28:41PM 3 points [-]

Yes! Whole new issue! Multi-scale methods can help (I like this example a lot) but I think there's still a little ad-hoc stuff hidden within the algorithm.