A Course in Machine Learning by Hal Daumé III

Machine learning is a broad and fascinating field. Even today, machine learning technology runs a substantial part of your life, often without you knowing it. Any plausible approach to artifi- cial intelligence must involve learning, at some level, if for no other reason than it’s hard to call a system intelligent if it cannot learn. Machine learning is also fascinating in its own right for the philo- sophical questions it raises about what it means to learn and succeed at tasks.