The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

I've been looking at SVMs for use with a binary classification experiment. Training and operating these models is quite cheap. The tooling is ubiquitous and will run on a toaster. A binary decision made well can be extremely powerful. Multiple binary decisions underly... gestures broadly.

Obvious contextual/attention caveats aside, a few thousand binary classifiers operating bitwise over the training & inference sets would get you enough bandwidth for a half-ass language model. 2^N can be a very big place very quickly.