Change my mind: the biggest difference between statistics and machine learning is that statisticians think a lot about sampling and people in ML largely...don't.
— Kristian Lum (@KLdivergence) September 9, 2020
Change my mind: the biggest difference between statistics and machine learning is that statisticians think a lot about sampling and people in ML largely...don't.
— Kristian Lum (@KLdivergence) September 9, 2020
I think the biggest difference is that ML people are trying to build software systems, whereas statisticians seek to support scientific inquiry. This is why ML folks don't typically care about estimation or statistical inference
— Thomas G. Dietterich (@tdietterich) September 9, 2020