Fortunately, it is getting easier and easier to get into machine learning. Just today, there was a post on HackerNews about a JavaScript neural network library. Can't get much easier than this:
var net = new brain.NeuralNetwork();
net.train([{input: [0, 0], output: [0]},
{input: [0, 1], output: [1]},
{input: [1, 0], output: [1]},
{input: [1, 1], output: [0]}]);
var output = net.run([1, 0]); // [0.987]
There's more and more free online courses, and even a good introduction to Deep Learning.
I've also come across a very neat paper, A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning, that is particularly helpful when you are first getting into machine learning.
And finally:
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