Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Third Edition

Machine learning and Python – a dream team

The goal of machine learning is to teach machines (software) to carry out tasks by providing them with a couple of examples (that is, examples of how to do or not do the task). Let's assume that each morning when you turn on your computer, you perform the same task of moving emails around so that only emails belonging to the same topic end up in the same folder. After some time, you might feel bored and think of automating this chore. One way would be to start analyzing your brain and write down all the rules and decisions that your brain processes while you are shuffling your emails. However, this will be quite cumbersome and always imperfect. While you will miss some rules, you will overspecify ...