Chapter 1. Introduction to Machine Learning

"To learn is to discover patterns."

You have been using products that employ machine learning, but maybe you've never realized that the systems or programs that you have been using, use machine learning under the hood. Most of what machine learning does today is inspired by sci-fi movies. Machine learning scientists and researchers are on a perpetual quest to make the gap between the sci-fi movies and the reality disappear. Learning about machine learning algorithms can be fun.

This is going to be a very practical book about machine learning. Throughout the book I will be using several machine learning frameworks adopted by the industry. So I will cut the theory of machine learning short and will get away with just enough to implement it. My objective in this chapter is to get you excited about machine learning by showing how you can use these techniques to solve real world problems.