From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-09 11:25:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.zip.com.au!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail From: faust Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:23:06 -0800 Organization: Cthulhu Fthagn Reply-To: The Elder Gods Message-ID: References: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> <4519e058.0301031434.51a0c880@posting.google.com> <81NR9.112823$Y86.60750@news2.central.cox.net> <4519e058.0301090704.28fa248e@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.81.163 X-Trace: 1042140224 7811 210.49.81.163 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32838 Date: 2003-01-10T06:23:06-08:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) , emitted these fragments: >The Bayesian(sorry for the bad spellings before) method is, in part, a >*reaction* to the percieved problems with the various scoring methods. Thomas Bayes was born in 1702. He pioneered what is now referred to as Bayesian statistics and Bayesian inference. Paul Graham's spamfilter is just an application of three century old techniques. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html -- natsu-gusa ya / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato summer grasses / strong ones / dreams site Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldier's dreams (Basho trans. Stryk)