(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 ...

--
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
  |  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  |  Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact

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