Jason Eisner

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Home page of Jason Eisner, CS professor at Johns Hopkins University who works on natural language processing and machine learning.

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The Three Cultures of Machine Learning

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Everyone should read Leo Breiman's 2001 article, Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures . (Summary: Traditional statisticians start with a distribution. They try to identify the parameters of the distribution from data that were actually generated from it. Applied statisticians start with data. They have no idea where…