machine

Definition

Appears as the first half of compounds — machine learning, machine translation — marking that a computer performs a task previously done by hand. The word carries a historical contrast: rules learned from data rather than written by experts. On its own it has no technical content, so in a title it tells you the framing, not the method.

Explainers using this term

• Kernel Methods and Gaussian Processes — The Champions Before Neural NetsPractical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms
• Build Your Own BPE Tokenizer — Learning Merge Rules, and Getting Punished by JapaneseNeural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
• Tokenizers from Scratch — The Unit an LLM Cuts the World IntoNeural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units