This is a nice, succinct condemnation of the same idiocy that motivates people to pick up a book on "agent-driven swarm learning systems" instead of understandi

This is a nice, succinct condemnation of the same idiocy that motivates people to pick up a book on "agent-driven swarm learning systems" instead of understanding how to maximize a posteriori the probability of an observed data set and apply the results to an incoming stream like it. (Example kiped from http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/mle.html http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/mle.html ; Andrew Moore is a hero)