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AI Concepts

Artificial intelligence definition Narrow AI General AI concept Machine learning relationship Deep learning relationship Symbolic AI Expert systems Search and planning Knowledge representation Probabilistic reasoning

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Bias in data Fairness metrics Privacy Explainability Transparency Human oversight Robustness Adversarial examples Data leakage Model cards

Applied AI

Recommendation systems Natural language processing Computer vision Speech recognition Time-series forecasting Generative models Embeddings Vector search Retrieval augmented generation AI system monitoring

Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals / Data & Features

Categorical encoding

Learn Categorical encoding in AI Fundamentals with a dedicated explanation, topic-specific example, edge guidance, and mastery check.

12 min read • Beginner

ai-fundamentals-019.py

py

colors=["red","blue","red"]
vocab={name:i for i,name in enumerate(sorted(set(colors)))}
encoded=[vocab[c] for c in colors]

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