[R] Strange question/result about SVM

[Steve Lianoglou]

> 	(Although I must admit that the current thread about SVMs leaves
> 	me --- personally --- cold.  I think that SVMs are a load of dingos'
> 	kidneys.

So, you're saying that you find them so essential that life w/o them  
is practically impossible ... unless we have dingo dialysis machines  
now? Or worse .. dingo's should go extinct?

>  As I may have said on this list previously, I think
> 	fortune("machine learning") is relevant.)

Not sure that that's entirely true, but who needs models and  
assumptions when you can get your hands on some objective function to  
optimize, anyway?

While not exactly relevant, I've been a big fan of this Vapnik photo ...

http://aboutintelligence.blogspot.com/2009/01/vapniks-picture-explained.html

My $.2 worth of levity,

-steve

ps - You can put a smiley at the end of each sentence, but then it  
just seems to look like line noise ... infer them as you see fit ...

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Steve Lianoglou
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