"Deep fried" beats "overfit" for casual ML slang, engineer argues
moultano · x · 2026-09-05
An engineer proposes adopting "deep fried"—borrowed from meme culture—for the colloquial sense of "overfit" (a model over-tuned to training details that generalizes poorly), letting "overfit" return to its original meaning of test-set loss getting worse. A light ML-community language observation with a Know Your Meme reference.
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