Re: a slightly updated rpm spec file for Ger Hobbelt crm114 branch
Christian Siefkes <[email protected]>
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Chris Babcock wrote: > Eugene Crosser <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Summary: CRM114 Bayesian Spam Detector >> ^^^^^^^^ >> ...Not really Bayesian... > > Bad mathematics. Good marketing. > > Tell people that Markovian filtering is better than Bayesian and > they'll ask if it can do Bayesian filtering. The answer is yes, but you > no longer have their attention. To the lay person "Bayesian" = "adaptive > filter". The summary is imprecise at the expense of being sexy. Indeed, Markov models and chains are an application of Bayesian statistics, so everything that's "Markovian" is "Bayesian" too :-) Best regards Christian -- |-------- Dr. Christian Siefkes --------- [email protected] --------- | Homepage: http://www.siefkes.net/ | Blog: http://www.keimform.de/ | Better Bayesian Analysis: | Peer Production Everywhere: | http://bart-project.com/ | http://peerconomy.org/wiki/ |------------------------------------------ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x346452D8 -- Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces [...], and the very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance, and certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as "common sense" has never produced anything worth celebrating. -- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Crm114-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crm114-general
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