The document discusses machine learning techniques including using examples to teach a computer how to navigate a maze, filter spam emails, label images, synthesize textures and text, solve analogies, and model species habitats. It provides examples of machine learning applications like handwriting recognition, helicopter flight control, and the game 20 Questions. Key machine learning algorithms covered are spam filtering, which assigns "spam scores" to words and emails, and text synthesis, which generates new text by selecting next words randomly based on prior context in example text.

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9. Examples of Machine Learning

22. Image Analogies [Hertzmann, et al 2001] ?

23. Image Analogies [Hertzmann, et al 2001] ?