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I was just about to submit an entry on this but you beat me to it :-) If it persists it should definitely be adressed - one of the great things about this plac
by mixmax 19y ago
I was just about to submit an entry on this but you beat me to it :-)
If it persists it should definitely be adressed - one of the great things about this place is the high signal to noise ratio and I would hate to see that drop.
But since PG basically invented bayesian spam filtering I am sure that it can be solved. If he isn't too busy doing arc that that is. ;-)
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- hhm 19y agoDid he really? I thought he just proposed an improvement to it or something like that.
- jcl 19y agoWikipedia says that while other people worked on it earlier, PG's essay really popularized it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering
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- mynameishere 19y agoWhen I first heard the term "Bayesian spam filtering" and its description, my response was, "Oh. I thought that's how they always did it." I didn't realize it was a big innovation.