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February 11, 2003

Bayes vs. Latent Semantics

Just to prove my point about my dysfactia, I recently said that Mac OS X uses bayesian probability to filter spam. I said that because I read it somewhere on the Internet. (Damn Intermenet!) Kevin Marks not only wrote to correct me — the Mac uses Latent Semantics — but also cc'ed Tim Oren who then blogged a brilliant explanation and analysis of the two techniques. Thus has my stupidity made us all a little smarter.

Don't thank me. It's what I do.

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 11, 2003 09:07 AM


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