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		stu2b50 on April 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine... I mean NNs are still quite bad at low n tabular data (and they may always be), which is honestly how a lot of real life data is, so there is clearly a need for not a neural network. I feel like I've seem more tree ensembles in the wild than SVMs, though.

rangerranvir on April 30, 2020 [–]

Anyway the idea of NNs was introduced to work on data which a simple human brain couldn't make sense of.

For more general tabular data, like trees, regression and even rule based models are more realistic.

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