4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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When Jane Street evaluates a new model on historical data, it needs to distinguish genuine predictive power from memorization of past outcomes.

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“This matters because whenever Jane Street evaluates a new model on historical data,”
“they need to know that its performance reflects predictive power,”
“not just memorization of past outcomes.”
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