&gt;&gt; doing &quot;machine learning&quot; without much understanding of mathematics and probability<p>In my understanding &quot;machine learning&quot; is just a buzz word for the good old fashioned data-mining, which is still a part of applied mathematics&#x2F;statistics. Only because it involves computers it doesn&#x27;t belongs to CS.<p>So what you have written sounds for me like &quot;doing applied statistics without much understanding of mathematics and probability&quot;. And yes, I am worried about it.