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Human Learning vs Machine Learning

Getting down to the fundamentals of Learning….

Gaurav Goel
Towards Data Science
6 min readMay 31, 2020

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Change is the result of all true learning ~ Leo Buscaglia

What is learning? What does it mean when we say that we have learned something? What is information or knowledge or wisdom?

Learning happens when you observe a phenomena and recognize a pattern. You try to understand this pattern by finding out if there is any relationship between the entities involved in that phenomena.

Let's try to break it down. Take the example of a simple phenomenon that we observe daily — the occurrence of day and night.

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Is there a pattern? Yes, there is a pattern. For a fixed time period, we are exposed to light and heat of the sun, which we call day-time. And then for another fixed period, we are deprived of light and heat from the sun. We call it as night-time. This pattern repeats over and over and over…….We have an observation about a phenomenon and we have a pattern. Can we explain how this pattern occurs? There are 2 entities involved in this observation — Sun and Earth. Is there a relationship between the amount of…

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Gaurav Goel
Gaurav Goel

Written by Gaurav Goel

Storyteller, learner, thinker and a Software Professional dealing with Science and Engineering of Data

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