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by mastazi 3446 days ago
From the article:

> Machine learning and data mining are not well distinguished, but machine learning techniques increasingly favor “unsupervised” learning algorithms.

The statement above puzzles me because it does not align with what I can see in the news. Maybe I'm just uninformed, so please let me know if I'm wrong.

According to what I can read in the news:

1 - Almost all of the recent ML developments that I can think of are in the field of supervised learning / reinforcement learning

2 - the only field that I can think of where unsupervised learning techniques are prevalent is data mining, which is precisely why I see it as a very specific field.

Am I missing something?

1 comments

No, you're right. Nothing about this blog post/resume inspires confidence.