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@HistoPol @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld a static model built by a human-directed “machine learning” process doesn’t grow other than as directed, and is certainly not self-organizing

Machine learning begins with taking statistical regression and simplifying it so you can build a model using far more data than is practical with full regression. Regression is a generalization of curve-fitting, finding a mathematical function that fits some given data as well as possible