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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by platz on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:41PM (#13943440)
> automatic feature extraction

Hope you have a *ton of data, otherwise it's not gonna happen

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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by trendia on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:53PM (#13943588)
And a lot of tweaking of configuration parameters until it's "automatic".
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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by akyu on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:39PM (#13945633)
This was true maybe 10 years ago. Not so much anymore.
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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by akyu on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:40PM (#13945636)
No, it will still happen. The learned features will just be "overfit" to that small dataset.
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