I'm often guilty of this too - but we really should put the (tm) there. It's nice that they made code of the algorithm publicly available and all they ask is that we respect their trademark in return. I think that's more than fair. :)
(I discussed this a few years with the co-inventor of random forests, Adele Cutler, and she confirmed that this is something that she wants to see happen.)
Not 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.
"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.
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I'm often guilty of this too - but we really should put the (tm) there. It's nice that they made code of the algorithm publicly available and all they ask is that we respect their trademark in return. I think that's more than fair. :)
(I discussed this a few years with the co-inventor of random forests, Adele Cutler, and she confirmed that this is something that she wants to see happen.)
Are algorithms patentable? Last I checked in US they were, copywritable?
Not 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.
"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.