INTRODUCTION
Machine learning! With such a science fiction-ish name, one might expect it to be technology that is strictly reserved for highly erudite specialists. Not true.
Actually, machine learning (ML) can easily be explained in commonsense terms, and anyone with a good grasp of charts, graphs, and the slope of a line should be able to both understand and productively use ML. Of course, as the saying goes, “The devil is in the details,” and one must work one’s way through those details. But ML is not rocket science, in spite of it being such a powerful tool.
0.1 What Is ML?
ML is all about prediction. Does a patient have a certain disease? ...
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