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by ajtulloch 4019 days ago
Nit: gradient boosting isn't an 'augmentation' of random forests - if anything, it's the other way round. AdaBoost is from 1995, the GBM paper was 1999, and Breiman's random forest paper in 2001 explicitly couches it as an enhancement to AdaBoost.
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Good point! Terrible wording on my part.