Frankly machine learning is a little bit of a buzz term. Not because it does not have a well defined meaning, but it's a way to make what you are doing sound mo

Frankly machine learning is a little bit of a buzz term. Not because it does not have a well defined meaning, but it's a way to make what you are doing sound more interesting. But I would say that learning is a higher level concept. So you would use an optimization algorithm to learn the solution for an SVM from data.