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Don't confuse variance with residuals #56

Closed cestrand closed 1 year ago

cestrand commented 1 year ago

In 05a - Deep Neural Networks (PyTorch).ipynb Do not call difference between expected value and prediction a variance. This language could confuse readers as variance is common statistical term. Instead call it just difference / residuals.