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by glial 2129 days ago
> fine tuned every week when new data came in

Yeah, that’s what you’re supposed to do - use new evidence to update your beliefs.

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I don't mean he allowed the model to update from new results, I mean the model would update, he'd be unhappy by its results so he'd change it so the outcome reflected his own biases. If you do that you produce a bunch of mathematical rationalizations for probability distributions that you invented from scratch.
Ach, thanks for clarifying.