The main difference is that statistics was designed for an age where having 30 samples was a lot. Machine Learning copes with millions of samples. I do multidimensional analysis (OLAP) and deal with billions of samples.
One of the fortune cookies in R (package ‘fortunes’, fortune 50) has this quote:
To paraphrase provocatively, ‘machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions’.
– Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics)
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004)
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Daniel Lemire 12.03.08 at 09:58
The main difference is that statistics was designed for an age where having 30 samples was a lot. Machine Learning copes with millions of samples. I do multidimensional analysis (OLAP) and deal with billions of samples.
Guess who is on top of the food chain! Me!
Brendan O'Connor 12.03.08 at 11:58
hah!
Karl Ove Hufthammer 12.04.08 at 05:01
One of the fortune cookies in R (package ‘fortunes’, fortune 50) has this quote:
To paraphrase provocatively, ‘machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions’.
– Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics)
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004)