MugaSofer comments on AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 28 January 2014 05:26:12PM * 1 point [-]

self-taught enough machine learning/NLP to be useful as a specialist in this area

Speaking as a nonexpert, I'm curious what similarities, parallels, and overlap you see between these two fields.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 29 January 2014 12:55:34AM 2 points [-]

Modern NLP (Natural Language Processing) uses statistical methods quite a bit - http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/