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Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess?

Posted by timothy on from the depends-what-it-means-to-play dept.

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."

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  1. But can a Bayesian filter play basketball? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, its jumpshot is terrible.

  2. I can beat that filter... by The+I+Shing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I beat the filter at chess if I spell it "CHE55"?

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    1. Re:I can beat that filter... by ceeam · · Score: 5, Funny

      Will you play with pwns?

  3. Chess spam by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Red hot pawn in your inbox
    College rooks waiting for YOU.
    Knight after knight, they are king of the castle.

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    1. Re:Chess spam by ceeam · · Score: 4, Funny

      Beware of STDs - check your mates.

  4. Pawn? by Boccaccio · · Score: 5, Funny

    It spanks your bishop all knight whilst looking at pawn!

  5. Get back to me when I can teach my cat chess by sgant · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:short answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, can a bayesian spam filter play chess?

  7. Get with the times. by fuchsiawonder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Playing chess is so...passe.

    Teach it how to play Katamari Damacy.

  8. Be very careful! by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Funny

    - 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.

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