This is a funny comment, not because it's so wrong, but because of the irony. Statisticians used to complain that neural net research was just badly reproducing

This is a funny comment, not because it's so wrong, but because of the irony. Statisticians used to complain that neural net research was just badly reproducing statistics. As late as the early 2000s, I had a stats professor actually get angry when I expressed interest in ANN theory.