Machine learning is the study that allows computers to adaptively improve their performance with experience accumulated from the data observed. Our two sister courses teach the most fundamental algorithmic, theoretical and practical tools that any user of machine learning needs to know. This first course of the two would focus more on mathematical tools, and the other course would focus more on algorithmic tools. [機器學習旨在讓電腦能由資料中累積的經驗來自我進步。我們的兩項姊妹課程將介紹各領域中的機器學習使用者都應該知道的基礎演算法、理論及實務工具。本課程將較為著重數學類的工具，而另一課程將較為著重方法類的工具。]
機器學習基石上 (Machine Learning Foundations)---Mathematical Foundations
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機器學習基石上 (Machine Learning Foundations)---Mathematical Foundations
Instructor: 林軒田
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There are 8 modules in this course
what machine learning is and its connection to applications and other fields
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5 videos5 readings
your first learning algorithm (and the world's first!) that "draws the line" between yes and no by adaptively searching for a good line based on data
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4 videos
learning comes with many possibilities in different applications, with our focus being binary classification or regression from a batch of supervised data with concrete features
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4 videos
learning can be "probably approximately correct" when given enough statistical data and finite number of hypotheses
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4 videos1 assignment
what we pay in choosing hypotheses during training: the growth function for representing effective number of choices
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4 videos
test error can approximate training error if there is enough data and growth function does not grow too fast
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4 videos
learning happens if there is finite model complexity (called VC dimension), enough data, and low training error
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4 videos
learning can still happen within a noisy environment and different error measures
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4 videos1 assignment
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CS
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Reviewed on Apr 18, 2020
以比較數學理論的角度解析機器學習，並且作為立論導入機器學習的領域，數學的部分真的蠻有難度，需要去思考一下，但是整體來說對於機器學習的概念有非常大的幫助，甚至可以藉由這些理論在一些案例中進行修正，非常有幫助。
MC
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Reviewed on Feb 19, 2018
The speaker explains the ML in very clear and easier to understand way. I believe everyone can understand if he/she follow the course.
SN
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Reviewed on Nov 16, 2018
机器学习的数学和统计学基础本是让人望而生畏的部分，但林老师的讲解深入浅出，循序渐进，在有限的时间内让我领略了机器学习背后的原理，为后续学习机器学习算法增加了信心，非常感谢林老师的课程！
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