Re: Bayes advice

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Barker wrote: > I've heard to try for equal numbers of spam training and ham training. > Optimally yes. Realistically, wild deviations from this ratio don't hurt very much. > I've used the defaults for autolearn, and manually relearned all the false > positives. It seems that learning the fa

Bayes advice

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Barker
I've heard to try for equal numbers of spam training and ham training. I've used the defaults for autolearn, and manually relearned all the false positives. It seems that learning the false negatives would be a good thing too, but dump magic is already way over 10:1 spam. Do I need to do somethin