Machine Learning or The Unexpected Virtue of Regression

Things I wish I knew before I learned ML the hard way

Łukasz Gebel
Towards Data Science
11 min readJul 30, 2020

--

Small robot looking at the sunset.
Photo by Dominik Scythe on Unsplash

The idea that computers can learn sparks our imagination. We see robots, autonomous cars and we’re wondering how is that possible? Ok, we could try to say to our laptop “come on buddy, follow me and learn”. That’s a great idea, isn’t it? Oh, you’re right, it doesn’t work that way……

--

--

Software Engineer by day, Machine Learning enthusiast at night. Tech conferences speaker. I love to learn, share, read, play football — in no particular order.