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Explains some concepts like the 'Nearest Neighbor Algorithm', and illustrates it in simple math. I really like the tone of this article. 'you can understand it' style (The author seems to say: 'you already know this!'). Choice quote:

Once upon a time I was the AI specialist for a large consumer electronics retailer. I spent a lot of time at AI conferences, which are typically filled with academics and military researchers. I was a popular curiosity at those conferences, with the most common question asked of me being why an IT person from a retail company would care about AI. My response was that AI is more valuable to the business world than to the academics and engineers. I've also known a lot of business programmers who've asked why I waste my time studying AI when everyone knows that only scientists can and should use that stuff. My reply is that the old classics are just as valuable, if not more so, than memorizing the latest APIs and, besides, this stuff is easy!

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