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#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Field of Machine Learning Is Different Than the Practice of Statistics

Even regular statisticians, non-computational statisticians, do spend some of their time evaluating rules right? Applying statistics to try to understand is this you know is this rule captured this? Does this not captured? You mean like hypothesis testing or like confidence intervals. I feel like the word statistic literally means like a summary like a number that summarizes other numbers. But I think the field of statistics actually applies that idea to things like rules to understand whether or not a rule is valid.

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