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hkbuildsyesterday at 9:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Decision trees are underrated in the age of deep learning. They're interpretable, fast, and often good enough.

I've been using a scoring system for website analysis that's essentially a decision tree under the hood. Does the site have a meta description? Does it load in under 3 seconds? Is it mobile responsive? Each check produces a score, the tree aggregates them. Users understand why they got their score because the logic is transparent.

Try explaining why a neural network rated their website 73/100. Decision trees make that trivial.


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sreanyesterday at 10:04 PM

You sir are keeping alive an old tradition. 1K BC old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esagil-kin-apli#The_Sakikk%C5%...