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Well, statistics is for those who understood that showing your work on an exam question was the whole point of the exam. ML is for those who just wrote down the
by bregma 6y ago
Well, statistics is for those who understood that showing your work on an exam question was the whole point of the exam. ML is for those who just wrote down the final answer and dismissed showing their work as a waste of time. There's no need to understand the 'why' if you already know the 'what'.
- avs733 6y agoI love this and I'm stealing this but I think you maybe didn't take it far enough. To extend your analogy, Statistics is for places where making meaning of or taking action on the answer must (for practical or normative reasons) include the process Machine learning is for places where meaning or action can be done without regard for the process.