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Old comic, more relevant than ever (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (5 children)

As an older developer, you could replace "machine learning" with "statistical modeling" and "artificial intelligence" with "machine learning".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

"I'm into if statements lately"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

"It's the same picture."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I think people are hesitant to call ML “statistical modeling” because traditional statistical models approximate the underlying phenomena; e.g., a logarithmic regression would only be used to study logarithmic phenomena. ML models, by contrast, seldom resemble what they’re actually modeling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

fuzzy logic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I hear this all the time in my field.

"Can you just fuzzy match the records between the systems?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We used to distinguish AI as automatically / programmatically making a decision based on an ML model, but I'm guilty of calling it AI for wow factor, lol.

Now I have to be careful because AI = LLMs in common language .