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AdaBoost from Scratch: How a Pile of Dumb Rules Becomes a Smart Classifier
Here is a question that sounds like a trick: can you build an accurate classifier out of models that are barely better than flipping a coin?
Surprisingly, yes. That is the whole idea behind boosting, and AdaBoost is the algorithm that made it famous. I built it from scratch and dropped it into an interactive demo — here's how it actually works, real math, no hand-waving.
Play with the live version: https://dev48v.infy.uk/ml/day21-adaboost.html
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