How many jelly beans - machine learning 🗣️

Key Takeaways

you know when you're at a carnival and they say guess how many jelly beans are in this jar to win 100 bucks all you need is simple machine learning to get the right answer take 10 friends with you and situate them at different angles of the jar then go around and Whisper to each one of them asking them to focus on a different feature tell one person look how big the jelly beans are tell another person look how thick that jar is and then you go around again and ask them how many jelly beans do you think are here each of them is an independent decision tree individually their guesses are horrible but if you take all these guesses and take either the majority or the average you just constructed a random forest and you are very likely to get the right answer the theory is wisdom of the crowd now it's your turn guess how many jelly beans are in this jar and follow for more simplified computer science