What is Machine Learning?
A Computer program is said to be learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance P, if its performance at tasks in T ,as measured by P, improves with experience E.
--Tom Mitchell
Example: playing checkers.
E=the experience of playing many games of checkers.
T= task of playing checkers
P=the probability that the program will win the next game.
In general ,any machine learning problem can be assigned to one of two broad classifications:
Supervised learning,Unsupervised learning.