There was a time when all I spoke about was SVMs! That was a fun time and perhaps I should have continued my PHD and not gotten consumed by my day job (where I built a tool to translate content to the Blackboard XML import/export). Will I ever get over it????? Maybe if I complain more!!!

SVM’s are now easier than ever to use without having to implement the complex Mathematics yourself. Jeez — the Ruby and Python libs put SVMs at your fingertips. Check out this article on using SVM and Ruby to implement a SPAM filter. SVMs are great at complex classification eg document classification. This could be the most enlightening thing you read all year and the year is still young. Save yourself from the CRUD that is web development. Save yourself while you can!!!