How an AI learns · part 7 of 11 · Outliers: mean vs median, errors vs rare-but-real, anomaly detection

Can one number fool an AI?

A billionaire walks into a café and the average says everyone is a millionaire while the median barely moves. Then a 770 typo and a real 1-hour, 98-mark student pull the AI's plank, and a 3 a.m. card payment shows when the outlier is the point. Turn Add an outlier and watch the plank re-fit and the mean and median change.

What you turn: Add an outlier

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