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Machine learning is quite the buzzword these days. While it's been around for a long time, today its applications are wide and far-reaching - from computer science to social science, quant trading and even genetics. From the outside, it seems like a very abstract science that is heavy on the math and tough to visualize. But it is not at all rocket science. Machine learning is like any other science - if you approach it from first principles and visualize what is happening, you will find that it is not that hard.