03/11/98 Machine Learning

• Administrative

  • Finish this topic
  • The rest of the time is yours
  • Final exam Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2:30-4:20 p.m., here
  • Additional help
    • today after class (me), Thursday 2-4 (SteveW), Friday after class (me), Saturday 10-12 (me)

• Last time

  • general introduction to Machine Learning
    • Machine Learning often isn’t what we mean by the word
      • “he learned the difference between right and wrong”
    • varieties of Machine Learning
      • reinforcement learning (learn plans/policies)
      • explanation-based learning (learn control rules to speed up problem solving)
      • inductive (concept) learning (learn a general description from examples)
        • decision tree learning is an interesting special case

• This time

  • finish the decision tree construction algorithm

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