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Machine Learning Explained!

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The minute we hear the word machine learning, many thoughts rush into our minds, starting from high-tech robotics, sophisticated complex algorithms and ending by Sci-fi movies (of course!). Well, we might be partially right if the plan is to assemble a robot or reinvent an auto-pilot car, but this is no longer the case these days! In the recent years, Machine Learning is being widely used in business scenarios or – to be fair – it’s even becoming mainstream! Predictive machine learning modules and/or sentiments are being used in our day-to-day tools and utilities. For example, there are off-the-shelf SaaS sentiments to tell whether a tweet from a customer is a good feedback (happy customer) or a bad feedback (unhappy customer). Another example that we could find off-the-shelf is face recognition, which is a service we could feed with a couple of (face) photos of a person, and then feed a totally different photo – of the same person – other than the ones provided at the begin...