Reading up on data-science
2 deep · digging since mar 06
- The Average Guys Outsmarting Wall Street on Prediction Markets
Retail prediction-market traders—'sharps'—have earned millions betting on events like elections and movie scores, often beating institutional forecasts.
- Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
Decision trees use entropy-based information gain to recursively split data into pure regions, balancing interpretability and speed against the stair-stepping problem for linear boundaries.