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Re:On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final ... by ur-whale on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:58AM (#23722636)
From the article: " In statistics, bad results can be wrong, and being right for bad reasons isn’t acceptable. In machine learning, bad results are wrong if they catastrophically fail to predict the future, and nobody cares much how your crystal ball works, they only care that it works."
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Re:On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final ... by NPMaxwell on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:22PM (#23725256)
Is that a typo? It makes more sense as "good results can be wrong, and being right for bad reasons isn't acceptable"
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