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SUMMARY:Maths education seminar: Jonas Latz an analogy between machine le
 arning and a child learning through a game
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jonas Latz (University of Manchester)\nTitle: Machin
 e Learning is (not) child’s play\nAbstract: Machine learning describes t
 he generation of an artificial intelligence (AI) through data. The termi
 nology creates an analogy between this process and the learning in intel
 ligent beings: An analogy that has been criticised as inaccurate in the 
 past. Goal of this note is to create a better analogy explaining machine
  learning – especially the mathematical optimisation process at its foun
 dation. The analogy is given through a children’s game that is able to n
 ot only accurately describe the machine learning process\, but to also s
 how challenges arising within the process\, and how these are solved wit
 hin the state of the art in machine learning. This note acts as a brief 
 introduction to optimisation in machine learning\, it proposes and discu
 sses the new analogy to the machine learning process\, and it aims to in
 form teaching practice.\nPreprint: https://latzplacian.org/wp-content/up
 loads/2025/12/Latz2025_MLisNotChildsPlay_v1_1.pdf
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G.114\, Alan Turing Building\, Manchester
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