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Have you looked at LSM k-v stores (RocksDB being the obvious one)? Under the hood they are based on building immutable layers of data that are implicitly merged. Clones that share …

The pitch is faster, and more space efficient since column stores are far better for analytics than row stores. Some benchmarks that found ~5-10x speedup: https://uwekorn.com/2019/…

Sorry, I should've been clearer! Beginner to ML? Stay away from SVMs. This tutorial looks good, and well written.

Agreed -- linear SVMs, especially in text processing applications, is the one area where they are a natural fit. All their attributes complement the domain. Linear SVMs also have d…

Stay away, in my opinion. I spent a year supporting a SVM in a production machine learning application, and it made me wish the ML research community hadn't been so in love with th…