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Are algorithms patentable? Last I checked in US they were, copywritable?
by marktangotango 8y ago
Are algorithms patentable? Last I checked in US they were, copywritable?
- kgwgk 8y agoNot the answer to your question, but in case it helps anyone: trademarks are unrelated to patents. You can use a random forest but you can not call them “random forest”. “Aleatory jungle” is fine, though.
- sacado2 8y ago"stochastic treeset". Sounds way more scientific, which can be required to convince a pointy-hair boss. "Random" forest sounds... well, I can flip a coin too, how is that going to solve my problem? For the same reason, "naive" bayes classifier are very hard to sell, to the point I stopped naming them and now just tell "a very fast machine learning algorithm", unless specifically asked.