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by cs702 2853 days ago
True.

On the other hand, the "more ignorant CS approach" has produced impressive achievements in language tasks (e.g., translation), visual tasks (e.g., image generation), game playing tasks (e.g., Go), agent-in-virtual-world tasks (e.g., DOTA), and robot-in-real-world tasks (e.g., self-driving cars).

Academic statistics departments often seem to be "20 years behind" on all those fronts...

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No doubt that club of statistical significance held back many statisticians.