Q: Why did Ed get attacked in the haunted jungle?
A: Because other people are sensible enough to not enter random forests.
That’s a machine learning joke at the expense of our co-author, but it makes an excellent segue into customized algorithms such as random forests. (A random decision forest classifies tasks in decision trees to output mean or average predictions/regressions. Ed’s revenge is that he explains jokes.) So far, in this book, you have done an extensive review of ...