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I mean, the author certainly used random forests, seeing as he invented them: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/07/07_breiman.shtml https://www

• thousandautumns 8y ago
  I can't help but notice he died in 2005. Perhaps the premise of the two cultures was more relevant a few decades ago, but in my more recent experience, its absolutely not the case.
  • cwyers 8y ago
    There is certainly cross-pollination between the two, and practitioners these days often adopt both. But the snide "machine learning is just statistics practiced by people who don't know what they're doing" comments you tend to see on HN ignore that machine learning was something that sprung up (largely in CS departments) to address challenges that statistics departments weren't addressing.