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by waldrews 703 days ago
The way I've been telling it:

- It's statistics if the goal is to figure out why it works

- It's data science if nobody cares why it works

- It's ML if nobody knows why it works

- It's AI if it's actually impossible to figure out why it works

The definitions are not quite mutually exclusive.

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A spectrum of heuristics. I like it.