Excellent explanation of what machine learning is – without the advanced mathematics.
I found the following brilliant explanation in Quora by Pararth Shah.
Mango Shopping
Suppose you go shopping for mangoes one day. The vendor has laid out a cart full of mangoes. You can handpick the mangoes, the vendor will weigh them, and you pay according to a fixed Rs per Kg rate (typical story in India).
Obviously, you want to pick the sweetest, most ripe mangoes for yourself (since you are paying by weight and not by quality). How do you choose the mangoes?
You remember your grandmother saying that bright yellow mangoes are sweeter than pale yellow ones. So you make a simple rule: pick only from the bright yellow mangoes. You check the color of the mangoes, pick the bright yellow ones, pay up, and return home. Happy ending?
Not quite.
Life is complicated
Suppose you go home and taste the mangoes. Some of them are not sweet…
View original post 850 more words
On Machine Intelligence 