A stats meme turns Simon Wood’s REML smoother into a joke about overfitting
Sauers_ · x · 2026-07-27
A statistics meme imagines a baby overfit function panicking about Simon Wood and the REML penalty from mgcv. The screenshot ties the joke to Google’s AI Overview, which advises: stop memorizing noise, accept regularization, and let REML smooth out the wild wiggles.
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