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+Important machine learning papers
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+## External Papers
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+* [Top 10 algorithms in data mining](http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~icdm/algorithms/10Algorithms-08.pdf) - While it is difficult to identify the top 10, this paper contains 10 very important data mining/machine learning algorithms
+* [A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf) - Just like the title says, it contains many useful tips and gotchas for machine learning
+* [Random Forests](http://oz.berkeley.edu/~breiman/randomforest2001.pdf) - The initial paper on random forests
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