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M36.7 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Project: reproduce a result and audit an ablation

A paper credits ridge regression with a six-point gain. Rerun it, pull the recipe apart with a seeded 2×2 ablation, and find out which ingredient really did the work.

LESSON OVERVIEW50 min lesson

Lesson overview

A paper credits ridge regression with a six-point gain. Rerun it, pull the recipe apart with a seeded 2×2 ablation, and find out which ingredient really did the work.

What you’ll explore

  • Preregister a reproduction, run a seeded 2×2 ablation, and report each effect and their interaction with confidence intervals before crediting any one component.
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Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters (Henderson et al., 2018)An Introduction to Statistical Learning — authors’ materials
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