Summary  
This chapter introduces supervised machine learning, where a model is trained on labeled data (training set) to learn patterns and then evaluated on unseen data (test set) for prediction without explicit rules.

General domain of usage  
Email spam filtering

**Machine learning (ML)** is an approach to programming where computers learn from data to solve a task instead of being given explicit instructions.

Consider the example of a **spam**/**ham** (not spam) classifier.


Building such a system with a traditional programming approach (without ML) is difficult, as it requires writing explicit rules, even manually compiling a list of spam words.

With machine learning, the model is trained on many examples of spam and ham emails and learns the distinguishing patterns on its own.



The data provided for training is called the **training set**. In this case, it consists of emails already **labeled** as spam or ham, which enables the model to capture the characteristics of both categories.

After training, the model is evaluated using a **test set** - a separate collection of labeled emails. This step checks how well the model generalizes to new, **unseen data**.


What is the primary advantage of using a machine learning (ML) model for a spam/ham classifier compared to a traditional programming approach?

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