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Machine Learning

Machine Learning · Level 2 of 5

Machine Learning (ML)

Methods that fit patterns from data to improve performance on a task.

A learned rule is estimated from examples instead of being entirely hand-written.

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A spam detector learns patterns from labeled messages.

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Machine Learning. Methods that fit patterns from data to improve performance on a task. A learned rule is estimated from examples instead of being entirely hand-written. For example: A spam detector learns patterns from labeled messages.

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