The Machine Learning Tribes

In his book'The Master Algorithm', Pedro Domingos dissects the ML trains of thought into 5 tribes/groups. Symbolists believe in inductive logic, using data and rules to model intelligent systems. This can be computationally intensive at times, subjected to over-fitting and the'Bias-Variance' paradigm. However, experimentation is the key in most of the methods employed here, for e.g. Connectionists are interested in learning how the brain works and mimic the same using neural networks. Deep learning and mapping the brain (Neurosciences) is endogenous to this tribe.