Machine Learning is the latest discipline to become a relabeled and conflated Statistics now that Data Science is old news. They used to be separate disciplines

Machine Learning is the latest discipline to become a relabeled and conflated Statistics now that Data Science is old news. They used to be separate disciplines, but for some reason Stats keeps looking for a separate label to glom onto in a similar way that Ontologies used to glom onto every sexy new technology in sight. In this light, most Machine Learning is just a rebadging of Classification theory that sounds cooler. Somewhere in the future, ML will fall off the hype curve [1] and something new will come along for boring old disciplines to rebadge themselves as. The good news is that these disciplines all leave bits of themselves behind and the things they were pretending to be become better and better defined. It's amazing how few job posting for Data Scientist require a PhD a Stats these days, but it was all the rage for a year or two. Now a reasonable Data Scientist can train up on Corsera in a few weeks. 1 - http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eL79PoJLFVY/UfSulEQrdfI/AAAAAAAAAws/fgUPqnFZ0a0/s640/Gartner's+Hype+Curve+Breakdown.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eL79PoJLFVY/UfSulEQrdfI/AAAAAAAAAw...