Foreword
What is machine learning? In the past year, whether it was during a conference, a seminar or an interview, a lot of people have asked me to define machine learning. There is a lot of curiosity around what it is, as human nature requires us to define something before we begin to understand what its potential impact on our lives may be, what this new thing may mean for us in the future.
Similar to other disciplines that become suddenly popular, machine learning is not new. A lot of people in the scientific community have been working with algorithms to automate repetitive activities over time for several years now. An algorithm where the parameters are fixed is called static algorithm and its output is predictable and function only of the ...
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