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Open book to page 23 meme

From Boosting the margin: A New Explanation for the Effectiveness of Voting Methods by Robert E. Schapire, Yoav Freund, Peter Bartlett and Wee Sun Lee. The Annals of Statistics, 26(5), 1998.

To the best of our knowledge, similar iterative schemes for combining functions have not been studied for the log loss.

Instructions:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 23.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

(Via fresh tracks which comes via join-the-dots via Dennis and Scott).

Note that I have subverted the meme from the original instructions which says the source should be a book and changed it to a journal paper. This has two motivations: first, the nearest object of my attention was this paper and not a book; and second, since the meme is now in a second generation, some mutation is expected to occur.