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A regularised linear model beats your tuned gradient-boosting ensemble out of sample. What does that tell you?
- AThe ensemble was tuned badly and needs more search
- BNothing unusual – a weak signal favours the simpler model
- CThe features are wrong, since a tree should always win
- DThe out-of-sample period must have been unrepresentative
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