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Regression is the supervised learning task for modeling and predicting continuous, numeric variables. Classification is the supervised learning task for modeling and predicting categorical variables. Support vector machines (SVM) use a mechanism called kernels, which essentially calculate distance between two observations. We've just taken a whirlwind tour through modern algorithms for the "Big 3" machine learning tasks: Regression, Classification, and Clustering.