r/datascience - :)

I know this is a joke, but are there really people out there using linear regression and calling it "machine learning"? Edit: y'all are right that linear regression is certainly a form of statistical learning. I think the main reason I instinctively think of it as being "not machine learning" is that it has a simple closed-form solution--so the "machine" part of statistical learning with linear regression is unnecessary. The same can't be said for a lot of other algorithms that are more comfortably referred to as "machine learning", you know?