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📝 Study Notes — Introduction to Machine Learning 47 min lecture → 3 min read
📝 Summary
Machine learning enables computers to learn from data without being explicitly programmed. Supervised learning uses labelled training data to build predictive models, while the loss function guides optimisation via gradient descent. Overfitting occurs when a model memorises training data rather than generalising, and is addressed through regularisation and cross-validation.
🎯 Key Concepts
Supervised Learning
Neural Networks
Gradient Descent
Overfitting
📖 Core Definitions
Training Data: Labelled examples used to teach the model to recognise patterns
Loss Function: Measures how far the model's predictions are from the correct answers
❓ Review Questions
1. What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?
2. Why does overfitting occur and how can it be prevented?

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