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Re:Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI? by sova on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:07PM (#15690257)
Hi! That's wonderful. What' a support vector machine used for?
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI? by pletnes on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:30PM (#15690901)
Classification and regression. Given examples, predict labels or values for new data. SVM used to be more «hot» than neural nets and are still very useful.
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