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Essays on overfitting

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Aug 19, 2026ACX

Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate

Scott explains why he's not interested in participating in the current wave of God debates on Substack, arguing that religious explanations fall into the same category as conspiracy theories by invoking "powerful hidden entities" to explain anomalies.

24 min read 3,639 words

Jun 14, 2023ACX

The Canal Papers

Scott Alexander examines the 'canalization' theory in computational psychiatry and its refinement through deep learning concepts in the Deep CANAL model.

32 min read 4,891 words

mental disorders neural networks overfitting