On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 08:54 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Clunk Werclick wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:15 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> > >> What's wrong with the bayes? > > > > Bayes is going out of fashion. > > Since when? And according to whom? Bayes is one of the stronger tools > available. I disagree. It can do as much harm as good. My own view and observation from the past have rendered it pointless in my context. It adds latency, is easily poisoned and rarely makes much difference to the score. I do appreciate some people like it, but my own view is spam has moved on beyond the point of it being useful. > > > It's just as easy to make a bad one by bad training than a good one. > > Any system can be rendered useless by mismanagement. That's not a flaw of > the system, or a reason to discard it as pointless. And GIGO will never > become obsolete.
> Set up bayes and make the commitment to train it properly and you'll get > good results. No thanks, I'll pass on that. In this specific case it still would not have increased the score to a point where the clock cycles made it worth it. > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- C Werclick .Lot Technical incompetent Loyal Order Of The Teapot. This e-mail and its attachments is intended only to be used as an e-mail and an attachment. Any use of it for other purposes other than as an e-mail and an attachment will not be covered by any warranty that may or may not form part of this e-mail and attachment.
