Probability reasons, statistics quantifies, ML predicts — Tivadar Danka untangles the three
TivadarDanka · x · 2026-11-06
Math educator Tivadar Danka offers a crisp conceptual separation: probability lets us reason about uncertainty; statistics quantifies and explains it; machine learning makes predictions from data — it may use probability and statistics, or it may not. A useful corrective to conflating ML with applied statistics.
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