Statistics vs. Machine Learning, fight!

Brendan O'Connor:

10/1/09 update -- well, it's been nearly a year, and I should say not everything in this rant is totally true, and I certainly believe much less of it now. Current take: Statistics, not machine learning, is the real deal, but unfortunately suffers from bad marketing. On the other hand, to the extent that bad marketing includes misguided undergraduate curriculums, there's plenty of room to improve for everyone.

So it's pretty clear by now that statistics and machine learning aren't very different fields. I was recently pointed to a very amusing comparison by the excellent statistician -- and machine learning expert -- Robert Tibshiriani. Reproduced here:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 4, 2013 3:21 AM
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