What is machine learning? There seems to be no agreement

>>59194145
Applied statistics and graph theory

>>59194145

its just a buzzword

"training an algorithm with vast amount of data until it makes accurate predictions" is not so appealing

You feed a computer program a whole bunch of data and it infers patterns from it.

>>59194155
>implying neural nets ever make "accurate predictions"
You get accurate algorithms by using actual logic. Neural nets just make things that are slightly better than mashing your head on the keyboard because you can't wrap your head around a problem.

It's statistics

It's a neutral network

>>59194188
Meanwhile, in real life...
http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2014/papers/Toshev_DeepPose_Human_Pose_2014_CVPR_paper.pdf

Applied linguistics