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> I think of that as a statistical technique, not an ML one Many ML techniques are statistical techniques, not ML. If we go down this road.
by sampo 7y ago
> I think of that as a statistical technique, not an ML one
Many ML techniques are statistical techniques, not ML. If we go down this road.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoI completely agree, and have been banging this drum for years :)
- ska 7y agoThere is a real risk of venturing into narcissism of small differences with this.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoLike, personally, I regard statistics and machine learning as the same subject from different perspectives (mathematics vs computer science). Their differences are primarily driven by the context of the time of their development. Back when we had very little data, we needed strong assumptions to make inferences. As compute increased, this became less necessary and we could just bootstrap instead of needing normal theory confidence intervals. But apparently, this is a controversial view.