Supervised learning
Learning from examples that come with answers.
Learn it through a story
- The Heap With No Names (Jugnupur Tales Vol 1, Ch 3)
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Related terms
- Reinforcement learning Learning by trial and error, getting rewards for good actions.
- Slope, or gradient Which way, and how steeply, the error changes when a weight changes.
- Spurious pattern An accident in the data that looks like a real rule.
- Tampering Secretly changing a system so it gives the answers you want.
- Test data Examples kept hidden, used only to check the model at the end.
- Threshold The line the total must cross for the neuron to say “yes”.