Show Notes
A model that fits your data isn't the same as a model that predicts accurately. In this episode, Dr. Philip Ramsey and Dr. Tiffany Rau make the case that science and engineering have a prediction crisis, and talk through what it takes to build models that hold up at conditions you haven't run yet. In this episode What "prediction" actually means: how a model performs at settings that weren't used to train itWhy complex systems break simple models, and what a nanoscale map of human brain tissu...
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