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443633456on Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own

"It's a Mossanite"

"...a...what-a-nite?"

"A Mossainite. Artificial, spurious, not-genuine and it's worth....fuck all"

443633456on Ask HN: Cheap living and fast internet and cold climate?

Hokkaido.

443633456on Probabilistic Data Structure Showdown: Cuckoo Filters vs. Bloom Filters

...which is why for determining if something is unknown, you ask SQL...are you indeed NULL? And SQL should say 'true' or 'false'.

    SQL null IS null

443633456on Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)

"There are no particles, only waves."

443633456on Why squared error? (2014)

I agree with this comment because ML comprises some techniques that are still not understood [1].

I would like to think that statistics comes more from a pure math approach, loosely, while ML comes from an applied math approach, loosely. ML works spectacularly well on a class of problems. Why it does what it does is (in)conveniently brushed under the rug. How you treat that (in)convenience is left to you.

[1] - https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic...