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https://paulgraham.com/spam.html https://paulgraham.com/spam.html I think all the parts were invented by other people, but he got the right mix to make it work
by gus_massa 3mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/spam.html https://paulgraham.com/spam.html
I think all the parts were invented by other people, but he got the right mix to make it work.
It's also like the wheel. Before it was a huge problem and no one know how to solve it. Now it's invisible.
Note that all modern versions use enhanced variants with a lot or trick to make it better.
- api 3mo agoEvery invention is made of other inventions all the way back to big rock and sharp stick. So yes Bayesian spam filtering was impressive for its time. I remember it being done locally in mail clients. It’s also one of the early popular deployments of a form of “AI” but that was still during the hangover from the first AI bubble when you had to call it “machine learning.”
- leoc 3mo agoHah, remember the brief interval when SV got excited about hiring people with machine-learning skills again, and Google was hot, but "AI" was still a dirty name, so they started buzzing about hiring people with expertise in "algorithms"?