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
hah!
Karl Ove Hufthammer
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)
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! ;-)
hah!
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)