Estimation

  • by Cynthia Rudin (see performance video)

     

    I was born to be a traitor, no one knows my name.
    They call me the multi-armed bandit, and alone I play my game.

    Now I, keep score of everyone, no one escapes my eyes,
    I keep count, of rewards, that I collect as time goes by, and I

    Explore, exploit anyone, without thinking too hard,
    Never, keeping anyone, always looking around and around
    No regrets, no regrets

    I was born to be a traitor, no one knows my name.
    They call me the multi-armed bandit, and alone I play my game.
    Now I'm searching, near and far, all my arms been tried,
    no context, there to use, uncertainty drove this ride. I'm gonna

    Explore, exploit all of them, never thinking too hard,
    fighting to find the best of them, always looking around and around
    No regrets, no regrets

    Now I know I am a traitor, no one knows my name.
    They call me the multi-armed bandit, and I always win my game.
    To get rewards, is my business, and I know I can prove, I can
    help you, decide without the AB testing you might do, I can

    Explore, exploit anyone, without thinking too hard,
    Never, keeping anyone, always looking around and around
    No regrets, no regrets

    I want to know, if it is possible to live a life with no regrets.
     

  • lyrics and music by Cynthia Rudin

    I was born to be a traitor, no one knows my name.
    They call me the multi-armed bandit, and alone I play my game.

    Now I, keep score of everyone, no one escapes my eyes,
    I keep count, of rewards, that I collect as time goes by, and I

    Explore, exploit anyone, without thinking too hard,
    Never, keeping anyone, always looking around and around
    No regrets, no regrets

    I was born to be a traitor, no one knows my name.
    They call me the multi-armed bandit, and alone I play my game.
    Now I'm searching, near and far, all my arms been tried,
    no context, there to use, uncertainty drove this ride. I'm gonna

    Explore, exploit all of them, never thinking too hard,
    fighting to find the best of them, always looking around and around
    No regrets, no regrets

    Now I know I am a traitor, no one knows my name.
    They call me the multi-armed bandit, and I always win my game.
    To get rewards, is my business, and I know I can prove, I can
    help you, decide without the AB testing you might do, I can

    Explore, exploit anyone, without thinking too hard,
    Never, keeping anyone, always looking around and around
    No regrets, no regrets

    I want to know, if it is possible to live a life with no regrets.

  • lyrics and music by Cynthia Rudin

    As the evening rolls by,
    The sun has past set,
    my code has a bug,
    and I ain’t found it yet.

    I tried all kinds of trials,
    ablated large scripts
    depleted my memory
    searched stackexchange for Tips.

    In training it predicts easy
    like a cheating gambler
    but in test, it's a random guess.

    On the midnight oil,
    the fire's lit
    despite these flames
    it still overfit.

    I know all the secrets
    you know that I do
    I randomized, regularized
    reduced dimension to two.

    Reset the seed
    and reshuffle them all
    increase parameters
    and prepare again to fall

    In training it predicts easy, like the sun in the desert
    but in test, it's that random guess
    the machine and I, we play this dreadful game
    and overfitting has become my name.

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