From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
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Machine learning
From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
Machine learning
- [Instructor] Back in the day, a machine was just a machine. It did whatever machine things it did, like stamping metal or turning a propeller, or maybe washing your clothes with a fair amount of help on your part. But nowadays, machines have to do more than just their given mechanical function. Now a washing machine's supposed to be smart. It's supposed to learn about you and how you like your clothes, and it's supposed to adjust its functions according to its sensors, and it's supposed to send you a gentle message on your phone when it's all done taking care of everything. This is a big change, not just for washing machines, but for so many other machines and for data science processes as well. This gets to the issue of machine learning, and a very simple definition of that is the ability of algorithms to learn from data and to learn in such a way that they can improve their function in the future. Now, learning…
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