What is Machine Learning ?

开始Machine Learning !
一、What is Machine Learning ?
Two definitions of Machine Learning are offered.
1、Arthur Samuel described it as: “the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.” This is an older, informal definition.

2、Tom Mitchell provides a more modern definition: “A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.”

Example:playing checkers
E = the experience of playing many games of checkers
T = the task of playing checkers.
P = the probability that the program will win the next game.( performance measure:性能指标）

In general, any machine learning problem can be assigned to one of two broad classifications:
Supervised learning and Unsupervised learning.

附：入门机器学习的知乎帖子：
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/29704017