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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. How's about replacing the /. "editors"? by Moderation+abuser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I mean, the editors bsically just categorise articles as worth posting to the main page, that could be done automatically and probably with a higher duplicate detection ratio.

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  2. problem building dbacl by rayde · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    when trying to build using the command:
    ./configure && make && make check
    i end up with this error (after much other output):
    /home/------/junk/chess/dbacl/src/lex.yy.c:1269: undefined reference to `yywrap'collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    make[3]: *** [bayesol] Error 1
    make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/------/junk/chess/dbacl/src'
    make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/------/junk/chess/dbacl/src'
    make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/------/junk/chess/dbacl/src'
    make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    anyone with a clue know what's wrong?
  3. Re:Heheheh by kronocide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I get downmoderated because I want to give some positive feedback but don't have any modpoints? Gee, thanks.