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> My guess is the next phase of this is basically comp sci ML research rediscovering mathematical statistics and information theory.

That’s the trick students doing ML courses for their CS degree don’t get. The people leading ML research today are statisticians.

Most of them learned their chops before neural networks became cool again. It’s extremely hard to publish anything good without a very solid background in maths.

There is no large divide today between ML and statistics where people could be forgetting things. It’s very much the same field. The main issue is that statistics were already a somewhat immature part of mathematics even before the ML craziness.