The Master Algorithm – Book Review

Over the past few years we have witnessed an incredible explosion of interest and application of machine learning. Machine learning has become the predominant computational paradigm, and in short term it has gone from one successful application to another. However, machine learning is far from a unified field, and many different approaches and techniques are vying for primacy and dominance. Which raises an interesting question: is it possible to find a single all-purpose machine learning algorithm that can successfully tackle all protean problems that are currently being attacked from various angles. This search for this "Master Algorithm" in many respects has the flavor of the search for a unified field theory in Physics.