Women complain that instead of calling to ask them out, or even make plans for a date, men simply text, “Heading downtown. Where r u?” as they walk to the subway. That may be deliberate. “There is no longer any reason to answer the phone when a woman calls you or return her call when [...]
A kernel, briefly, is a function of two vectors that behaves like a dot product. You can think of it as sort of a generalized dot product. Kernels are very important in machine learning because they are a way of implicitly defining distance functions between objects. An algorithm that needs to compare two objects can [...]