Breiman is right and wrong at the same time. Powerful tools like nonlinear polynomial models, OLS, HMM and RBMs were implemented and devised by statisticians.

Breiman is right and wrong at the same time. Powerful tools like nonlinear polynomial models, OLS, HMM and RBMs were implemented and devised by statisticians. And not from tribe 2. The difference is the data model is explicit but general.