stavros.anagnou

… protector — to whom you owe fealty, a portion of your harvest — than to have no protection at all. But protection from whom? And what fealty does this new lord demand?

…r a random extraction of the observations from the dataset and a random extraction of the features. Not every tree sees all the features or all the observations, and this guarantees that the trees are de-correlated and therefore less prone to over-fitting. Each tree is also a sequence of yes-no questions based on a single or combination of features. At e…

It’s easy to turn around and say “Well THEY have to be strong enough to love themselves and to arm themselves against what I have to say! They have to shield themselves from the effects of my actions!” but that’s just not how humans or reality works.