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#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI

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Decision Theory and Decision Theory

For quite a while, statistics was called inverse probability. That was the name of the field. Laplace who was working in Napoleon's government needed to do a census of France learn about the people there. He went and gathered data and he analyzed that data to determine policy. And said, well, let's call this kind of thing statistics because the word state is in there. In French, that's eta. But it's the study of data for the state. So anyway, that caught on and it's been called statistics ever since.

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