Maybe the pure science of ML is descriptive and not prescriptive. But if the rest of the world uses ML prescriptively in application, then in practice it's bas

Maybe the pure science of ML is descriptive and not prescriptive. But if the rest of the world uses ML prescriptively in application, then in practice it's basically prescriptive. It's a bit like dictionaries: they "learn" the current meaning of words. It gets annoying though when everyone starts running around policing the meaning of words based heavily on that dictionary: it would conservatively restrict the natural evolution of word meanings, when we know meaning of words do change over time, and sometimes should change over time.