new post dropped:
All my homies hate LASSO
(it's meant to be free so everyone who RT will get access 😃)
🔮how good is LASSO at recovering sparsity?
💡 lesson from a macro HF PM in building +150 forecasting models
🏰 (lack of) invariance of regularisation
featuring stolen content from @choffstein@macrocephalopod@bennpeifert@quant_arb
The nonsense of statistics! South Africa saw 2.2 million job losses in Q2 of 2020 but reports the unemployment rate falling to 23,3% from 30,1% because of a decline in the work force (people couldn't "actively seek work" under lockdown).