Introduction to machine learning

In this section, we will introduce ML by using a simple analogy that might serve as common ground to establish our explanation. We will also see why and how ML works.

We will start the section by using an information transfer system as a simple analogy for ML.

A simple analogy of a machine learning system

I remember a time I was in a Twitter Space involving a discussion about ML and some other cool topics. I was told to give a brief introduction to ML for those who were interested but didn't fully get the gist.

The majority of people in this Twitter Space were software engineers with no previous knowledge of math, statistics, or any topic related to ML, and I came across instances where people failed to understand the terminology of the topic due to the addition of some technical terms.

This section aims to explain ML by avoiding too many technical terms and finding a common ground through which ML can be explained.

Using an information...