Yeah, "throw a Bayes net at it" doesn't make much sense given the current state of machine learning tech AFAIK. Throw a linear regression or a regularized line

Yeah, "throw a Bayes net at it" doesn't make much sense given the current state of machine learning tech AFAIK. Throw a linear regression or a regularized linear regression, sure. Throw k-nearest-neighbors or naive Bayes EM clustering, maybe. "Throw a Bayes net", not so much.