The tree house I lived in that summer was decidedly unspectacular. It was more of a tree hovel, really. The floor was a large sheet of graffitied plywood, and the roof was covered with a pair of heavy ...

Fantasyland Theatre in Disneyland now has fake trees and a cloudy sky as it prepares for a new Bluey stage show. The theater closed in January and will reopen with the new show in late March. In our ...

Abstract: Gradient boosting is an efficient and scalable supervised machine learning technique, and most scaling models based on gradient boosting perform well on point regression tasks, but they can ...

Here we studied the entire Atlantic Forest hotspot to investigate whether the effect of different environmental predictors depends on the phylogenetic extension and the biogeographical history of ...

ABSTRACT: The forest ecosystems of Martinique, like those of the Lesser Antilles, are diverse and, in some cases, quite complex. The numerous phytocenoses that make up these ecosystems are ...

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Passing a budget is hard work. There are proposals, committee meetings, backroom deals and public hearings that when combined form a process that takes weeks to spit out something resembling a ...

Check the paper on ArXiv: FastBDT: A speed-optimized and cache-friendly implementation of stochastic gradient-boosted decision trees for multivariate classification Stochastic gradient-boosted ...

ABSTRACT: Flora and vegetation are important indicators of the health of a forest ecosystem. The overall objective of this research is to assess the effects of the spatio-temporal dynamics of land use ...