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Re:Why squared error? (2014) by joeyo on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:57PM (#13032710)
It may not be true for all branches of machine learning (fuzzy logic, for example?), but the vast majority of modern ML techniques are equivalent to or can be viewed as types of statistical machine learning.
Re:Why squared error? (2014) by Normal_gaussian on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:04PM (#13032751)
Good point about the fuzzy logic, often the boundaries between it and statistics are... fuzzy