Degrade vs Overlearn - What's the difference?
degrade | overlearn |
To lower in value or social position.
* Palfrey
To reduce in quality or purity.
(geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
*2010 , "An own goal on gay rights", The Economist , 14 Oct 2010:
*:Why the rigmarole of a military survey before enacting a measure most Americans already favoured? Maybe he over-learned the lesson of the clobbering Bill Clinton got when he barged into this area right at the start of his presidency.
(psychology, education) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
(modeling) Mostly when talking about neural networks, to learn a task to the point where responses actually start to degrade. Compare with overfit , in model tuning contexts.
As verbs the difference between degrade and overlearn
is that degrade is while overlearn is to learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.degrade
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Verb
(degrad)- Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
- Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
- The DNA sample has degraded .
