IN THE GARDEN: Wait until spring to assess winter damage to plants

Help! I have several fig trees and am not sure how to prune them. The bushy tree you see has over time become a shrub/bush ...

Two Fresno stores closing — a Fig Garden clothing store and a teacher favorite

The operator of the stores in the United States and Canada is closing all 175 locations — unless a buyer can be found. It ...
Americus Times-Recorder

Four sticks

Recently, I ordered four sticks in the mail. This might seem like an odd choice for how to spend my hard-earned money, but these particular sticks are alive. Four different […] ...
onlyinyourstate.com

There’s No Other Historical Landmark In Southern California Quite Like This 145-Year-Old Tree

This Southern California Airbnb Looks Like It Belongs in Santorini A few towns and cities along the Southern California coast are particularly noted for their historic events and landmarks, and Santa ...
IEEE

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

Abstract: Tree-based models are often robust to uninformative features and can accurately capture non-smooth, complex decision boundaries. Consequently, they often outperform neural network-based ...
Los Angeles Times

Review: The fig tree is the best analogy for the indecisive

As someone who was an avid reader growing up, it is a shock that I haven’t so much as touched a book now that I am older. But there is a reason for this. My biggest motivator for reading was that ...