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Thank you a lot :) I'm further bombarding you with questions: I'm trying to list the usages of Bayesian inferences in industry. So, there is spam filtering, I

by BenoitP 13y ago

Thank you a lot :) I'm further bombarding you with questions: I'm trying to list the usages of Bayesian inferences in industry. So, there is spam filtering, I bet there would be recommandation engines (ex: amazon's product recommandation, ad targeting). Would you know of other uses? Do you know of some kind of tutorial of how one particular bayesian engine is applied to a particular dataset in a commercial venture? Also, I have been looking at weka (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/), and j48 in particular. j48 is an implementation of the C4.5 algorithm, (which is close to ID3 and C5). Here is how I learned about C4.5: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/10Algorithms-08.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/10Algorithms-08.pdf. Would you happen to know if one of these algorithms have commercial applications? In a different subject, Judea Pearl has been awarded the Turing award for using Bayesian networks to calculate probability of causality. Which is different than traditional Bayesian analysis, where we calculate probabilities of a property being true. In his theory, he claims one can calculate the probability of a property being a necessary condition, the probability of a sufficient condition to another property (and the probability of both combined). I'm really having trouble understanding the ins and outs of this too. Have you heard about an usage of this theory? Do you think it has a viable shot at having commercial applications?

aytekin 13y ago
We use it on our phishing filter for our form builder app. We have a tool which we use to review forms created in our site and teach it if a form is a phishing form or not. It works so well that we trust it to auto-suspend phishing accounts. Number of false positives is less than 1%.
marktangotango 13y ago
It appears you are looking for Deep Insight into field x where x = "applications of Bayesian filtering". This is not a reliable way to do this (random posts on non specialist forums). A more reliable path is to study the topic exhaustively over n years where n > 1. Take classes, or do a ph.d, or find a good academic library and read the related textbooks and journals. Thus developing expertise, apply imagination => profit!

by BenoitP 13y ago

aytekin 13y ago

We use it on our phishing filter for our form builder app. We have a tool which we use to review forms created in our site and teach it if a form is a phishing form or not. It works so well that we trust it to auto-suspend phishing accounts. Number of false positives is less than 1%.

marktangotango 13y ago

It appears you are looking for Deep Insight into field x where x = "applications of Bayesian filtering". This is not a reliable way to do this (random posts on non specialist forums). A more reliable path is to study the topic exhaustively over n years where n > 1. Take classes, or do a ph.d, or find a good academic library and read the related textbooks and journals. Thus developing expertise, apply imagination => profit!