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w_t_payne · 2013-08-09 · Original thread
Get Webb's book: http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Pattern-Recognition-Andrew... Play with tools like GGobi.

Be aware that most stuff in industry is waaaaay simpler than what comes out of academia. A simple linear classifier, if it works, beats a support vector machine that takes 10 times longer to implement. Most of your day will be spent wrangling data, not dealing with fancy math.

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