Lecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)
Overview
The first lecture of Andrew Ng's Stanford CS229 Machine Learning course, giving an overview of the course. It introduces supervised and unsupervised learning, learning theory and reinforcement learning.
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Recommended as the rigorous, math-heavy original course, deeper than the Coursera version, for learning machine learning.
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Video by Stanford, played through YouTube.
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