Machine learning vs simulation
October 29th, 2009
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Lately, I was thinking on the difference between machine learning and simulation (for prediction). Machine learning use historical inputs and outputs to find subsequent outputs. Simulation, on the other side, asses you get the knowledge, i.e. the underlying model so you don’t need historical data to learn it. Sometimes you can use both methods to know something, sometimes only one method is available. After thinking about it, I find than the distinction between them is thinner that I thought.