I very much like "compulsive use despite negative consequences"; it's a very concise definition.

我很喜欢“不管消极结果的强制使用”；是非常简洁的定义。

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Any definition of a distance metric has to satisfy a handful of properties to qualify; for example, a distance can never be negative.

距离度量的任何定义都必须满足一些可以度量的属性；例如，距离永远不可能为负。

youdao

I very much like "compulsive use despite negative consequences"; it's a very concise definition. It puts it well.

我很喜欢“不管消极结果的强制使用”；是非常简洁的定义。这很好。

youdao

Important cases where the computational definition of R2 can yield negative values, depending on the definition used, arise where the predictions which are being compared to the corresponding outcomes have not been derived from a model-fitting procedure using those data, and where linear regression is conducted without including an intercept.

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