From Rules to Learning

Video coming soon. The recording and full written notes for this lesson are still being produced. What is below is the lesson outline, which tells you what it covers and what you should be able to do afterwards.

What this lesson is for

Understand the difference between software that follows rules and software that learns.

What it covers

• Ordinary software: someone wrote every rule
• Machine learning: patterns found in examples
• Why a learning system can be right often and wrong unpredictably

Before the video is ready

Work through the points above using the suggested resources on the course page, and bring anything you could not follow to the course discussion. Your instructor reads it.