Metric volume vs. Arthur Samuel's 1959 coinage.
Which meaning of ML is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Millilitre came first (c. 1795). Machine learning arrived in 1959. The data below shows which one owns the word now.
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MillilitreMachine learning
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Duplicate's share of attention
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The case for each meaning
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Original · c. 1795
Millilitre
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Duplicate · c. 1959
Machine learning
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