Recently, I formed a strong interest on machine learning in that it provides a new way to view the relationship between how programs view the world and how we view the world. Even if digging the detail requires a strong math knowledge, which I don’t have yet, by reading basic concepts, I can have a grasp of the idea. I believe it might be the future of computers.

Leave out how this subject is powerful since I am just beginning my first contact with it, let’s look at how much has been done through it. For example, it allows programs to learn from the past and form new knowledge. I went through a paper called “Major Life Event Extraction from Twitter based on Congratulations/Condolences Speech Acts” and I found that a lot more could be done with appropriate machine learning strategies. It is almost unimaginable before for a program to identify intents inside texts used by humans and now it’s made possible by machine learning. That’s cool.