Day: July 14, 2016

Learning From Data and Three Principles

The learning problem and the principles before building a model.

This blog is mainly based on the book and lecture notes by Professor Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa from Caltech on Learning from data; you could benefit greatly from the lecture and videos.

  1. Learning Problem:
  2. Program and ML Toolbox
  3. Learning Principles

Learning Problem:

“In God we trust, and others bring data”.

If you show a picture to a three-year-old and ask if there is a tree, you will likely get the correct answer. But if you ask a thirty-year-old what the definition of a tree is, you will likely get an inconclusive answer.

We didn’t learn what a tree is by studying the mathematical definition of a tree. We knew it by looking at the trees. In other words, we learn from ‘Data’.

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