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Category: Reddit MachineLearning

[D] Random Forest Bias & Variance Intuition

It makes complete sense that Random Forests decrease variance by only considering a random subset of features at each split for each individual decision tree, thus leading to uncorrelated trees.

However, what doesn’t make sense to me is — why wouldn’t this increase the bias to the point where the reduction in variance didn’t really matter? If the trees are all biased enough, then it doesn’t matter if variance is removed via averaging — the ensemble will still be bad due to the bias.

Does anyone have intuition as to why the bias isn’t increased too much?

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[D] Need strong proofreading for machine learning papers

Sorry if this is off-topic.

For researchers for whom English is not their native language, it can be quite difficult to express their thoughts in scientific articles. A high level of English speaking and finished “writing in the science” courses on Coursera are not always enough…

It will be cool if you share the services which are able to help with this.

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[D] Is it OK to not cite a relevant paper due to it not being open-access?

A recent paper has popped up on my radar that appears (from the title + abstract) to be related to the work in a paper I’m writing. However, it’s published in a fairly low-tier conference that has all proceedings behind a pay-wall. I’ve tried to find it on the authors homepages and also tried to email them for a copy, but they haven’t responded to me. Am I expected to buy the paper for 25 euros, just to see if the content is actually relevant?

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[P] I created AI playing spout and it’s sometimes better than me.

[P] I created AI playing spout and it's sometimes better than me.

There is a game on google play called spout:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slipcorp.spout&hl=en_US

I created copy of it in java and then made neural network that can steer an agent. Next I programmed genetic algorithm that does choosing and replicating job.

It is training view:

https://preview.redd.it/qbxyvz1fbm441.png?width=1015&format=png&auto=webp&s=271eaaac626e640310919f160841a323461f29ad

After training few hundred generations I click “Save Best Agent’s Neural Network” and save that net to file. Next, I load that net to other program in which I can play spout and AI can play in the same time.

Competition:

I am on the left, AI plays on the right.

As you can see, it has potential to beat my score and it beats from time to time.

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