Machine Learning Explained: Algorithms Are Your Friend

The answer is, in one word, algorithms. Algorithms are sets of rules that a computer is able to follow. Think about how you learned to do long division -- maybe you learned to take the denominator and divide it into the first digits of the numerator, then subtracting the subtotal and continuing with the next digits until you were left with a remainder. Well, that's an algorithm, and it's the sort of thing we can program into a computer, which can perform these sorts of calculations much, much faster than we can