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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Machine Learning

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ML is used for predictive analytics and predictive modeling, e.g. making predictions about the likelihood that a certain event is going to happen (will this customer be interested in this item, is this message spam). A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning , Pedro Domingos, Communications of the ACM, 55 (10), 78-87, 2012.