Machine Learning Week-1

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.