Ask HN: Are there alternatives to artificial neural networks?

3 points by lawlessone ↗ HN
I'm asking because i'm curious is this really the only the only way?

The closest I can see are SVMs which seem to be easier to train but require more work for inference.

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Various gradient boosting models are said to very competitive for tabular data.