What is machine learning?
We know that computers are good at yes and no answers, or 1s and 0s, if you like. This means that a computer fundamentally cannot reply with an -ish answer, so it cannot say yes-ish to a question. Bear with me for a moment, as this will become clear shortly.
At its most basic level, we can say that machine learning boils down to teaching computers to learn in the same way that we do. They learn to interpret data from all sorts of sources and use this learning to classify that data. The machine will learn from successes and failures, which will, in turn, make it more accurate and capable of making even more complex inferences.
Getting back to the idea of computers working with yes or no answers, when we come up with ...
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