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Well yes. Before the trendy buzzword, machine learning was known simply as predictive statistics.
by gaius 9y ago
Well yes. Before the trendy buzzword, machine learning was known simply as predictive statistics.
- pmiller2 9y agoNo idea why this was downvoted; I find this to be an accurate description. The difference between stats and ML is mostly one of terminology and perspective. I studied math in college and grad school, and there were several moments in Andrew Ng's online lectures where I thought "oh, I know this, but we didn't call it that, and I had no idea it was considered ML."
- flamedoge 9y agoreminds me of the whole Bayesian perspective of ML
- lottin 9y agoOr simply statistical modelling. I think there are methodological differences though. To me ML seems like a massive p-value fishing operation.
- spencer_ochs 9y agoDo you mind elaborating? I can't think of any methods that explicitly (or implicitly) use p-values. The only place in the industry I have seen p-values used is AB-testing, but most seem to be trying to move to a multi-armed bandit, bayesian methodology.