Programming versus Machine Learning
Explore the fundamental contrast between conventional programming and machine learning. Understand how traditional coding relies on explicit instructions while machine learning enables computers to learn from data and improve by experience. This lesson introduces supervised learning concepts and helps you grasp how machines can figure out tasks like playing games or recognizing images through trial and error.
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We’ll get an introduction to supervised learning in this chapter. Within a couple of chapters, we’ll code our first machine learning (or simply “ML”) system. Then we’ll evolve this system, one small step at a time, until it becomes powerful enough to read handwritten digits.
In the future, we are unlikely to ever write machine learning algorithms from scratch. But doing it once to grasp the fundamentals is priceless. We’ll understand every line in the final program. Machine ...