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double descent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables
dou-ble de-s-cent
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.

Uncountable

noun

The phenomenon where a model with few parameters and a model with many parameters have a small test error, but a model whose number of parameters is about the same as the number of data points used to train the model will have a large error.

Uncountable

Usage

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What does double descent mean?
The presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.

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