Understand these 5 basic concepts to sound like a machine learning expert

Most people seem a bit intimidated or confused by machine learning. What is it? Where is it going? Can I have some money now please?

All valid questions. The truth is, you’ve been training machine learning models for years now, probably without realizing it. Do you use an iPhone or Apple photos? Or how about Facebook? You know how it shows you a group of faces and asks you to identify them? Well, by tagging those photos, you are training a facial recognition model to identify new faces. Congratulations, you can now say you have experience training machine learning models! But before you do, read these machine learning basics so you can accurately answer any follow up question. Read more

Aaron Edell - Medium - 6 Apr 2017