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I always think of ML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language) when people abbreviate Machine Learning to ML :(

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I find that it's easiest to think "machine learning". It's easy to tell when people mean the programming language from context.

For one, at least IME, it's rare these days for someone to use ML to mean a specific programming language. They'll say SML or ocaml. Just ML ends up getting couched into phrases like "the ML family of languages".

To be fair, I only hear about ML the language when someone post in the comments complaining about a post about machine learning.

It's like when I see NLP I have to try and contextualise between natural language programming, natural language processing, neurolinguistic programming and network layer protocol.

I thought it was nonlinear programming.

I too used to, but have realized that almost never is the language referred to as “ML”. It would rather be SML or another dialect name.

The one context I've seen ML show up as such is when referring to the family as a whole, rather than a specific dialect.

I must admit I had the same reaction to this post, and thought that calling it Julia Academy was odd if they were going to teach other languages.

SML is a ML but ML is it's own pre-SML language too.

Right, but one that died before what I'm guessing is the average birth date of hacker news readers. It's probably at least as hard to find a pre-SML ML compiler that will run on a microcomputer as it is to find a SML compiler that can understand the code examples from any SML book written before 1997.

Probably, i've tried once or twice to find a pre-SML ML compiler, but not had any luck so far.

You'd be hard-pressed. Pre-SML, it mostly only saw the light of day as a the metalanguage of a theorem prover named LCF. Which I think ran on a PDP-11 or a VAX or something like that.

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/785072.pdf

I always think of Maximum Likelihood.

Same

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