So it’s pretty clear by now that statistics and machine learning aren’t very different fields. I was recently pointed to a very amusing comparison by the excellent statistician — and machine learning expert — Robert Tibshiriani. Reproduced here: Glossary Machine learning Statistics network, graphs model weights parameters learning fitting generalization test set performance supervised learning regression/classification unsupervised learning density estimation, clustering large grant = $1,000,000 large grant = $50,000 nice place to have a meeting: Snowbird, Utah, French Alps nice place to have a meeting:Las Vegas in August