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Re:Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating S... by TTPrograms on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:54PM (#18702584)
"Is advanced machine learning a very complicated way of reproducing the results of trivial forecasting methods? In many cases it appears this is the case."

If by "many cases" you mean "the one example I looked at which was carried out by an undergrad" than sure. That sort of phrasing really gives away the author's bias.

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Re:Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating S... by longerthoughts on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:20PM (#18702786)
The author isn't arguing that ML isn't useful, they're simply pointing out that it isn't worthwhile for all problems and data sets.
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