{"id":257,"date":"2007-12-09T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=257"},"modified":"2007-12-09T23:33:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T04:33:36","slug":"svms-why-so-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"SVMs: Why so popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SVMs are a nice technique, but they&#8217;re slow (O(N<sup>3<\/sup>)) and often give worse classification results than techniques such as radial basis function networks or even bagged \/ boosted kNN, Bayes, and\/or decision tree models. So why are they so popular?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SVMs are a nice technique, but they&#8217;re slow (O(N3)) and often give worse classification results than techniques such as radial basis function networks or even bagged \/ boosted kNN, Bayes, and\/or decision tree models. So why are they so popular?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}