https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01168/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15103176urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.01168:15103176Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:48:08 GMT<p>A lot of what they discuss is in the literature on reference priors, if not in other literature on objective priors as well. It&#x27;s a little complex for a comment on HN, but IMHO the best formalization of overfitting is in the literature on minimum description length, and related information-theoretic literature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length ; the wikipedia page is a little off on some things but the general points are probably about right). The relationship between MDL/NML and Bayesian statistics is a little complicated--Barron, Roos, and Watanabe have a nice recent…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01168/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>stat.ML