15.1 Introduction to Machine Learning
In this chapter and the next, we’ll present machine learning—one of the most exciting and promising subfields of artificial intelligence. You’ll see how to quickly solve challenging and intriguing problems that novices and most experienced programmers probably would not have attempted just a few years ago. Machine learning is a big, complex topic that raises lots of subtle issues. Our goal here is to give you a friendly, hands-on introduction to a few of the simpler machine-learning techniques.
What Is Machine Learning?
Can we really make our machines (that is, our computers) learn? In this and the next chapter, we’ll show exactly how that magic happens. What’s the “secret sauce” of this new application-development ...
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