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Rob Tibshirani, a statistician at Stanford university, created this amusing comparison between machine learning and statistics:

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What does "large grant" here mean?

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Grants fund research. The joke is that statistics and machine learning receive dramatically different amounts of funding, so what counts as a "large" amount of funding (a "large grant") is different between the two fields.

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