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by geophile 1189 days ago
I have no idea what that has to do with the points you are responding to.
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Statistics has two meanings:

1. A way to interpret math. E.g. given a computation you might interpret some values as probabilities. 2. A particular set of methods which people use to analyze information as well results of such analysis.

The problem with "just statistics" is that 99% of people would understand it as #2. But deep learning is very much not like "normal" statistics.