uter algorithms that can learn from experience. While statistics and machine learning often try to solve the same problems, researchers from these fields often take very different approaches; the famous statistician Leo Breiman once referred to them as “The Two Cultures” to reflect how different their approaches can be <span class="citation">(<a href="#ref-breiman2001" role="doc-biblioref">Breiman 2001</a>)</span>. In this book I will try to blend the two cultures together because both approaches provid