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Following a drizzling, we take a walk on the wet street. Feeling the gentle breeze and seeing the sunset glow, we bet the weather must be nice tomorrow. Walking to a fruit stand, we pick up a green watermelon with curly root and muffled sound; while hoping the watermelon is ripe, we also expect some good academic marks this semester after all the hard work on studies. We wish readers to share the same confidence in their studies, but to begin with, let us take an informal discussion on what is machine learning.

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Zhou, ZH. (2021). Introduction. In: Machine Learning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1967-3_1

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