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Machine Learning with Go Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with Go Quick Start Guide Hands-on techniques for building supervised and unsupervised machine learning workflows

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838550356
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Bironneau Michael Bironneau
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Supervised Learning

As we learned in the first chapter, supervised learning is one of two major branches of machine learning. In a way, it is similar to how humans learn a new skill: someone else shows us what to do, and we are then able to learn by following their example. In the case of supervised learning algorithms, we usually need lots of examples, that is, lots of data providing the input to our algorithm and what the expected output should be. The algorithm will learn from this data, and then be able to predict the output based on new inputs that it has not seen before.

A surprising number of problems can be addressed using supervised learning. Many email systems use it to classify emails as either important or unimportant automatically whenever a new message arrives in the inbox. More complex examples include image recognition systems, which can identify what an image...

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