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1. The basics of machine learning

Charlie Gerard1 
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Les Clayes sous bois, France
 

1.1 What is machine learning?

Over the past few years, you’ve probably heard the words “machine learning” many times, but what is it exactly? Is it the same thing as artificial intelligence? What about deep learning? Neural networks? Models?

Before diving deeper into the tools, algorithms, and what can be built, let’s start by defining some of these terms to gain a common understanding of what machine learning is and is not.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are all related terms. However, they’re not exactly the same thing, they’re ...

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