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llm-docsmith
Published:Mar 28, 2025
How I built yet another AI docstring generator.
Climbing trees 3: from trees to forests
Published:Mar 5, 2025
In this post, we'll explore the mathematical foundations and implementation of bagging, a popular strategy to reduce model variance, and random forests, an algorithm that uses decision trees and bagging.
Climbing trees 2: implementing decision trees
Published:Jan 28, 2025
Implementing classification and regression trees (CART) in Python with categorical feature support.
Climbing trees 1: what are decision trees?
Published:Jan 7, 2025
This is the first in a series of posts about decision trees in the context of machine learning. The goal here is to provide a foundational understanding of decision trees and to implement them.