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by denzil_correa·7y ago·view on hn ↗
> This provided him with the subject matter for his famous paper Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001). Like Chambers, he divided statistics into two groups: The data modeling culture (Chambers’s lesser statistics) and the algorithmic modeling culture (Chambers’s greater statistics). He took it one step further, stating that 98% of statisticians were from the former, while only 2% were from the latter.

This paper provides an important distinction for the "Machine Learning is just statistics" remark.

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So, the tools of machine learning are the tools of statistics. The uses to which those tools are put are quite different.
It describes why machine learning was regarded as separate from statistics twenty years ago. The world has moved on.