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by dhruvbird 3998 days ago
People try to make the fit be as tight as possible to the sample data -- the explanation is that simple. I don't buy the explanation provided in the article.
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Pretty good point. That's how I felt.

Additionally, this setting is probably too close to usual situations you get in school where there is little to no interaction and negative answers from the teacher are seen as failures by students. (Speaking about education in my country only.)