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I don't know anything about computer science or statistics, and I never once thought this course or machine learning in general ever had anything to do with act
by Gatsky 11y ago
I don't know anything about computer science or statistics, and I never once thought this course or machine learning in general ever had anything to do with actual learning in humans. The distinction between this and cognition is pretty clear, and it would be obvious to anyone 2 minutes into the first presentation.
- graycat 11y agoYup, and that's why adding the word learning to some material from the long well-established field of statistics is high hype, low academic standards, and inappropriate. So, I am objecting. As you note, can tell in two minutes that what computer science does with the word learning is inappropriate. More generally computer science keeps misusing words to suggest that their work is somehow close to what humans do when thinking, and that suggestion is misuse of language, hype, or worse. They should stop it. Yes, but this point, that as you correctly note can be seen in two minutes, is controversial here at HN.