Deadwood from the Random Forest

"They will chop you down just to count your rings." — Aesop Rock The Random Forest does not show its work. What it does is grow, slowly, in concentric record, keeping years the way trees keep years — wide ones, thin ones, the scarred ones nobody asks about. The practice is the standing tree. The site is the canopy. Most of it is not for sale and never will be. These are the cross-sections. Editions when a year produced more than one. Singular objects when a year produced exactly one and refused to be repeated. Every piece is a ring lifted out of the trunk and set down here, where it can be counted without the whole tree having to come down. The Arborist does the cutting. The forest does the growing. You decide what the rings mean.