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+Discriminative vs generative classifiers from CS229: http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes2019fall/cs229-notes2.pdf
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+SVMs from CS229: http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes2019fall/cs229-notes3.pdf 
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+Good SVM tutorial: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/svmtutorial.pdf