On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:41:53PM -0500, Gabriel Wachman wrote: > The motivation for this is that I'm comparing a filter a colleague wrote > to various other filters (including SpamAssassin) and I want to make > sure that the summary I give of SpamAssassin in my paper is accurate. > Neural net vs. perceptron is a large distinction in our community, so I > wouldn't want to be wrong about it.
Unfortunately, most of us aren't qualified to go into the details of machine learning techniques, myself included. There's more information on the wiki and in the source tree about how the perceptron works for us in some more depth: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Perceptron http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/masses/README.perceptron Hope this helps. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Now that Windows NT 5.0 has been renamed Windows 2000, we should reconsider the rumor that the number that appears after the word 'Windows' is a minimum memory requirement in megabytes." - Craig Milo Rogers
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