Why Machine Learning? A Comprehensive Guide to ML Basics, Use Cases, and Benefits-ML(Part 2)-

1-Understanding the Basics of Machine Learning

Sections

1- Why we used Machine Learning?
2- What is machine learning (ML)?
3- Difference between ML and traditional Programming

Section 1- Why we used Machine Learning

Before machine learning became mainstream, programmers wrote rules derived from a function of their domain knowledge, observation of some hand-picked instances, and the business requirement to perform a particular task. But this legacy way of delivering business results suffered some evident constraints.

• Hand-written rules are limited by the knowledge of what edge cases a programmer can cover. This concept is very well explained by one of the most highly cited papers in the world of psychology titled “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.”
• Commonly cited as Miller’s law, the paper describes the limited amount of information an average brain can hold and how it becomes unmanageable with the increasing number of variables and dimensions.
• Data is dynamic by nature and has become more so over the last…