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We have disparate fields who are often studying the same exact phenomenon, but don't know it because of jargon
Can you give an example of this?
This is true, some algorithms have been rediscovered multiple times like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) which was discovered by biologists before machine learning researchers.
I'm not sure how much overlap something like pure geometry might have with chemistry for example though except in fringe cases like the LDA above.
I was just asking for an example. What is the story with LDA?
I'm not sure there's a story really but some biologists proposed LDA before Ng did. Ng's work has some absurd number of citations in the machine learning literature.
The well known Belief Propagation algorithm was also discovered multiple times.
I think it happens a lot in machine learning since ML is a mix of so many well established fields which have their own notation and interests that it can be hard to do a literature survey.
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