Machine Learning for Kids

Foreword

When my dad was a child, growing up in Illinois after the turn of the century—not this century, mind you, but the previous one—radio was getting started, the zipper had just been invented, Charlie Chaplin was all the rage, Lindberg had not yet crossed the Atlantic, the Titanic sunk, the Model T was released, and most of the world was still being governed by various monarchies or vast, sprawling empires. When I was a child, growing up in the Great Plains of Texas, we had just landed humans on the moon, computers were huge, expensive beasts, the internet had not yet been invented, plastic was starting to become widespread, and talking to someone on the other side of the world was prohibitively expensive for all but a few. I spent many ...