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I've always liked this visualization of the Bias-Variance tradeoff: http://www.eggie5.com/110-bias-variance-tradeoff


That's OK as a visualisation of what bias and variance are, but it's a bad visualisation of the bias-variance tradeoff, because in that image there is no tradeoff - it shows a case where bias and variance are independent of one another. An illustration like this one genuinely confused me when I was first introduced to bias and variance: I couldn't understand why the lecturer was claiming there is a tradeoff while showing a picture of a case where there is no tradeoff. I eventually figured out what was going on, but I think I would have got it quicker if it had been explained more like the linked post, and less like that diagram.




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