Recently, you’ve read numerous HN articles telling you machine learning is the future. You’ve heard that Google uses it for search, Facebook uses it to detect faces, and Netflix uses it for recommendations. Your interest is sufficiently piqued. But you might still be left wondering, “How do I get started?”
Many folks in the tech industry are skeptical about the hype of machine learning, since the world has been promised to them before, but the reality hasn’t really panned out. In fact this has happened so many times, there is a term for this in the machine learning community called an AI Winter. A number of fundamental factors are different though in 2015 that warrant taking a closer look this time around.
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Machine Learning is hard because:
