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Did he really? I thought he just proposed an improvement to it or something like that.
by hhm 19y ago
Did 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.