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Are we now going to call every statistical technique "Machine Learning"?


Nope, we're switching to "AI" these days.


Only if done using a machine.


No, nene no. Statistical techniques start from hypotheses and are validated by tests and confidence intervals.

Here we basically don't care what's our chances of getting it wrong. It's a marginal feature in some email client, not quality control in a brewery.


I kinda think you're being down voted because people don't know the origin of the t test. I thought it was funny.


No, that's just Machine Drunk Brawling, aka. Sophisticated Stupidity.


Certainly Data Mining and applied statistics




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