Statistics for Machine Learning

Driving office example for TD learning

In this simple example, you travel from home to the office every day and you try to predict how long it will take to get to the office in the morning. When you leave your home, you note that time, the day of the week, the weather (whether it is rainy, windy, and so on) any other parameter which you feel is relevant. For example, on Monday morning you leave at exactly 8 a.m. and you estimate it takes 40 minutes to reach the office. At 8:10 a.m., and you notice that a VIP is passing, and you need to wait until the complete convoy has moved out, so you re-estimate that it will take 45 minutes from then, or a total of 55 minutes. Fifteen minutes later you have completed the highway portion of your journey ...