### TL;DR
In 1959 Arthur Lee Samuel coined the term machine lear...
Arthur Lee Samuel was an American computer scientist and pioneer in...
Important characteristics to take into account when choosing the pr...
Samuel used a **look ahead search algorithm, also known as backtrac...
Minimax is a recursive algorithm used in decision making and game t...
### IBM 704
The IBM 704 Data Processing System was a large-scale c...
In two-player sequential games, **a ply is one move/turn taken by o...
### What is Rote Learning?
One of the learning techniques used b...
### Sense of direction
The rote learning method produced a slow bu...
### What is learning by generalization?
> ***"An obvious way to ...
Samuel's checkers algorithm using the generalization learning metho...
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