A Zero Maths Understanding of Bayesian Optimization

Building a simple intuition for Bayesian optimization for Machine Learning

I gifted you a sophisticated and hypothetical coffee machine and asked you to brew the best coffee for yourself by modulating the thousands of dials that are there on the machine. You are an intelligent fellow and quickly realise that it is an optimization problem. You have two options:

1. Change the settings of the dials umpteen times, brew different types of coffees, taste all of them, find your…