Random Forests (Breiman, 2001) on “Papers That Actually Changed My Mind”, a list by Marcus Ellison on TheLysts.
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Paper
Foundational paper on the random forest algorithm
Field
Statistics / Machine Learning
My take
Unsexy title, workhorse algorithm. This is the Ben Zobrist of ML papers, does everything decently, never flashy, somehow ends up winning the World Series of your Kaggle competition.