Abstract: Objectives: This paper proposes a novel stability metric for decision trees that does not rely on the elusive notion of tree similarity. Existing stability metrics have been constructed in a ...

There is indeed a vast literature on the design and analysis of decision tree algorithms that aim at optimizing these parameters. This paper contributes to this important line of research: we propose ...

David Spade slammed a mall's tree-lighting ceremony for omitting the word "Christmas." In the Sunday episode of Spade and Dana Carvey's "Fly on the Wall" podcast, the 61-year-old "Grown Ups" actor ...

Costco’s strategy makes the company a lot of money, so it stands to reason that Dollar Tree would follow suit. Costco now stocks luxury items alongside budget products to appeal to affluent members.

In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design it to intelligently route queries to the right ...

Some would say postmodernism is ruining the things we love. It’s certainly crept into the offices of ad executives, who now use our goodwill to trick us into watching ad campaigns for mediocre cognac.

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Junior faculty are often told to protect their time, but nobody provides instructions for how to do so. As an assistant professor at a public university, I have struggled to balance my course load, my ...

Collective decision-making is hardly a perfect science. Broken processes, data overload, information asymmetry, and other inequities only compound the challenges that come from large, disparate ...

As our planet warms, one crucial adaptation strategy is to make our cities and towns shadier, and the most beautiful way to do that is by planting more trees and taking better care of those already in ...