Machine learning is an amazing field about creating mathematical algorithms that learn. They are slowly building in intelligence, as they handle more complex and varied datasets. Every week you can hear about a few new algorithms in this area… support vector machines, bayes nets, markov chains, kalman filteres, neural nets and perceptrons, random forest decision trees used for gestural recognition in the xbox kinect, supervised learning and unsupervised learning, logistic regressions, PCA, ICA, feature selection, and the list of different algorithms goes on. You get the picture. People seem to investigate the new algorithms in passing fads, moving from...

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