Quiz 4 (CS1573)

  1. Explain one of the three reasons discussed in class and in the readings for doing machine learning?

  2. Define a learning problem (by specifying a task, performance measure, and experience) for learning to take the SAT test.

  3. For the task of learning whether someone will wait at a restaurant or not (as discussed in class and in the text), is the training experience
    1. direct or indirect
    2. provided by a teacher or not
    3. representative of test data?

  4. Why is learning called function approximation?