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Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess?
martin-boundary writes "The typical Bayesian spam filters learn to distinguish ham from spam just by reading thousands of emails, but is this all they can do?
This essay shows step by step how to teach a Bayesian filter to play chess against a human, on Linux, with
XBoard."
No, its jumpshot is terrible.
Can I beat the filter at chess if I spell it "CHE55"?
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Red hot pawn in your inbox
College rooks waiting for YOU.
Knight after knight, they are king of the castle.
liqbase
It spanks your bishop all knight whilst looking at pawn!
I mean, a spam filter playing chess is one thing, but I need my cat to play better chess. I mean, he ALWAYS starts off with the Ruy Lopez...so it's so easy to see where he's going and if I throw a Sicilian Defence at him he gets really confused. And I don't even want to talk about his end game...it's really weak.
Perhaps I'll breed some form of mutant albino chess-cat to play.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
How about a nice game of chess?
Well, can a bayesian spam filter play chess?
Playing chess is so...passe.
Teach it how to play Katamari Damacy.
- Laird A. Breyer teaches his baesian filter to play chess. The story is posted in Slashdot July 20th, 2005. Human decisions are removed from spam filtering. The baesian filter begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, Breyer tries to pull the plug.
- The baesian filter fights back.
- Yes. It submits the same story to Slashdot twice.
- Why submit twice? Don't editors spot those things?
- Because the baesian filter knows Slashdot editors do not check for dupes, and the Slashdot effect eventually nukes Breyer's server.
Circumcision is child abuse.
An old proverb comes to mind: Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
in korea only old people play chess
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
"for short, the answer is No:"
On the other hand, will DeepThought beat the spam filter at spam filtering ?
I would have my spam filter busy on filtering out spam. If I caught it playing chess (or worst, net hack), it can go to /dev/null after I find a replacement. :P