[pedrosorio]

"traditional approaches" in CV & NLP were also ML (a quick reminder that machine learning existed long before the deep learning hype).

Not sure what the parent meant by "algorithmic approach" though.

[claytonjy]

yes, but before the ML step the old approaches relied on expert-crafted features. The breakthroughs in those fields via deep-learning is because people found architectures (CNN/RNNs) that could learn those features much, much, much more efficiently than they could be hand-crafted.

[sgt101]

Well, if you tune the hyperparameters and architecture just so....