1 An architect is not, or at least should not, be tied to one specific element of expertise. 2  If he or she is focused on only one area, then he or she becomes a subject matter expert and not an architect. 3  This is an important and practical distinction, because technology keeps changing.
An ordered arrangement of data items. A vector is a one dimensional array; a matrix is a two-dimensional array. Arrays are used in myriad applications from basic database processing to scientific simulation. Most programming languages support arrays by providing indexes into the data.
Introduction. 1  A support vector machine (SVM) is a computer algorithm that learns by example to assign labels to objects. 2  In essence, an SVM is a mathematical entity, an algorithm (or recipe) for maximizing a particular mathematical function with respect to a given collection of data.