What is machine learning?
What is machine learning? Here goes my answer. For a summary just read the titles and quotes. Extending human intelligence When Steve Jobs was a kid, he read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species. That is, the researchers wanted to find out which animal uses less energy for traveling 1 kilometer. The condor was the winner of this analysis whereas humans’ performance was rather unimpressive, appearing about a third of the way down the list. But then someone had the idea of testing the efficiency of the locomotion of a man on a bicycle. And it turned out that the man on a bicycle blew away the condor, performing with an efficiency completely off the top of the charts. Jobs realized that what makes humans different from other animals is that we are able to build tools that make us better. Years later, when he started working with computers, Jobs made one of his famous quotes: “Computers are like a bicycle for the mind”. Today, forty ye...
