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by jessaustin 4256 days ago
"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." -- John von Neumann

The green "real" signal in your picture is amusing when juxtaposed with the red "zero-noise-assumption" signal in the last frame. TBH this accounts for most of my distrust of e.g. climate modeling.