I agree with this comment because ML comprises some techniques that are still not understood [1]. I would like to think that statistics comes more from a pure

I agree with this comment because ML comprises some techniques that are still not understood [1]. I would like to think that statistics comes more from a pure math approach, loosely, while ML comes from an applied math approach, loosely. ML works spectacularly well on a class of problems. Why it does what it does is (in)conveniently brushed under the rug. How you treat that (in)convenience is left to you. [1] - https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematical-mysteries/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic...