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The U-shaped test error of polynomial fits

You fit polynomials of increasing degree dd to a scatter of noisy points and track both the training error and the error on a fresh test set.

Describe how each error behaves as dd increases, and what the shapes reveal about bias and variance.

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This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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