Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning that addresses problems where there is no explicit training data. Q-learning is an algorithm that can be used to solve some types of RL ...

Danny Lange, Uber’s head of machine learning. (Uber photo.) Under the simple skin of Uber lies complexity you may not have considered: the logistics of predicting how long it will take rides (or meals ...

Machine learning is a buzzword in the technology world right now, and for good reason: It represents a major step forward in how computers can learn. Very basically, a machine learning algorithm is ...