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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 08 December 2014 05:47:06PM *  8 points [-]

[ meta comment about deep NNs and ML: they are very impressive predictors, but please beware of hype, AI and now machine learning is sort of hype prone, culturally. I actually think statistics culture is superior to machine learning culture about this. ML and statistics are ultimately about the same topic: drawing conclusions from data intelligently. ]