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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by emcq on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:48PM (#13942159)
If you have good features there is little advantage to a complex model.

In production ML there are still many applications for random forests, linear models or svms. Though I prefer random forests because they require less preprocessing, are super fast to train, and can be easy to explain feature importances.

Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by Scea91 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:57PM (#13942977)
In addition, random forests often work very well out-of-the-box with 'default' hyperparameter settings.