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Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

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SomaticPirate ◴[20 Oct 24 02:14 UTC] No.41892387[source]▶
Any suggestions for a 101 introduction to random forests? In university I encountered some ML courses but never random forests.
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1. jph00 ◴[20 Oct 24 02:21 UTC] No.41892414[source]▶
Yeah I did a deep dive on them here -- doesn't require any particular math background beyond high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blyXCk4sgEg