Machine Learning with Swift

The motivation behind ML

Let's start with an analogy. There are two ways of learning an unfamiliar language:

• Learning the language rules by heart, using textbooks, dictionaries, and so on. That's how college students usually do it.
• Observing live language: by communicating with native speakers, reading books, and watching movies. That's how children do it.

In both cases, you build in your mind the language model, or, as some prefer to say, develop a sense of language.

In the first case, you are trying to build a logical system based on rules. In this case, you will encounter many problems: the exceptions to the rule, different dialects, borrowing from other languages, idioms, and lots more. Someone else, not you, derived and described for ...