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Since this will become obsolete in 5 years of sooner, it's just a great introduction. Not something hanging in my room/office.

• curiousgal 8y ago
  Machine Learning is merely a bunch of statistical algorithms that have been around for centuries. So although the name/branding may indeed change in a few years, the content will be the same.
  • karmakaze 8y ago
    AlphaGo changed my worldview. It was the first sort of singularity that divides my history of the world into before and after. Now I don't doubt that we will rapidly continue to develop the algorithms and hw too that is all very different from what is believed to be known.
  • physicsyogi 8y ago
    "Centuries" is a bit of a stretch, right? Or am I misunderstanding your comment? Some of the most widely used algorithms in machine learning, for training or prediction, are much younger than that: - backpropagation (1970s) - Viterbi algorithm (1960s) - Markov Chain Monte Carlo (1940s) (Though, the Buffon's needle problem is from the 18th century.) And things like conditional random fields, LDA, and LSTMs, were introduced after 2000. edit: removed lone parenthesis
    • Raphaellll 8y ago
      LSTM 1997 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1246450 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1246450
    • curiousgal 8y ago
      I was referring mostly to Bayes, PCA and the regression algorithms which are widely used.