> It's the output model that eventually makes it into the back-end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Yes, the model itself is part of the backend, not the code used to generate the m

> It's the output model that eventually makes it into the back-end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Yes, the model itself is part of the backend, not the code used to generate the model. But the website explicitly mentions "machine-learning __models__" as an example of something that's "not backend". > Back-end has always meant the CRUD/API portions of a CRUD app. This is not true. Compilers have backends. Speech processing pipelines have backends. The dragon book, which pre-dates the advent of the WWW, distinguished frontend from backend (and in those words). Web-based CRUD apps inherited the terminology.