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Machine learning terminology

A definition of some of the terminology used when talking about machine learning.

This videos looks at some of the terms you might encounter in machine learning, including:

  • observation / instance
  • attributes and features
  • dimension
  • model
  • extrapolation
  • parameters
  • epoch, learning rate and hyperparameters
  • accuracy, errors and loss.
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