It's got nothing to do with two people disagreeing on what is and what isn't spam. It's got to do with people making mistakes. That Bob would classify some of the email differently is irrelevant.
I've hand classified email before, and I made mistakes. My definition of spam didn't change between making the mistake and noticing it, I simply put a few emails in the wrong category.
But now you are getting down to the specifics of using a specific tool to read through mail as you decide which items to move to which folder (good, or spam). Of course, with a bad interface, you can make mistakes. It could be too easy to double click, or if you hold the delete key a second too long it could delete two mails at a time. Or you could not be paying attention.
That's irrelevant.
We're not talking about a specific mail reading interface. We'er talking about pure classification. I give you a piece of mail to look at and you tell me "This is spam" or "This is not Spam". That's what the program is doing.
To determine the accuracy of a spam detector, it is necessary first to come up with a sample of what is or isn't Spam. (I'd assume a human would do this?) So the best result we can get be evaluating humans is how often they agree with the result of the initial label.
This figure probably won't be 100%. People have slightly different concepts of what mail is requested vs. unwanted, and what is advertising or useful information. So there is a valid possibility of disagreement.
That doesn't mean humans can't do the job accurataly. (After all, if they couldn't, then the initial human-made labels would themselves be wrong and any data based on them meaningless!)
If the training data is labeled with the same criteria as the test data, it is obviously possible that a trained system can acheive results which more closely agree with the test data. They are being trained on similiar data. But that doesn't mean that the system is MORE accurate at detecting spam than humans. It means that the system agrees with a particular human (or set of humans) more than other people do in a labelling of spam/non-spam.
For all we know, the evaluators idea of spam is "wrong".
Some pop-bottle promotions have been using an opaque plastic, meaning that you couldn't tell even when you tilt the bottle to look at the inside of the cap.
or they could just put a little bit more soda into the bottle.
Here's my advice. Send the tax return to the IRS, and use the tax REFUND to buy the laptop. Otherwise the shopkeeper might laught at you, and you won't get the laptop.
This more than inconvenienced the owners of that site, who had to move pages and ended up displaying this page instead."
On the other hand, you could say that it benefited the owners of the site. After all, people were interested enough in fractals and/or Julia (or just the picture they saw), to follow up and seek out more information. Isn't the purposes of those sites to provide information to people interested in fractals?
Chances are, people who found the sites down will follow up the same links today or tomorrow to read more about fractals. Ultimately, it will increase traffic (and interest) to those sites. Thats's a good thing.
How the fuck can you be 'complicit' in a suicide in the first place?
Easy! Either you, or your wife Cherie, calls up MI5, and asked them to quiet a certain Dr. Kelleyp. And then you add "if you can make it look like a suicide...all the better".
The article seemed interesting, but I gave up only one category in. Come on -- one or two paragraphs and a picture per page? That could have easily all fit on one screen and been MUCH easier to read, and prevent having to wait for a ton of extraneous border material to reload and rerender for each component. You don't make people turn the page of your magazine for each new paragraph, do you???
Apple ][, ][+, and ][e used the brackets. the//c (like the///) was diagonal.
(and I know this because I had one!)
the "//c" text is at the upper right of the system.
also, if you look carefully at the system, you'll also note the slanted buttons and lights above the keyboard to go along with the logo -- the slant is at the same angle!
it was a witty refrence the last time it was used, but doing the exact thing again in two weeks' time does make it feel a bit trite and unoriginal, doesn't it?
Some people might be put off by the word "unstable," or the word "Sid" (the name of the mentally unstable kid in the movie "Toy Story").
I suppose that I'm one of those people. To me, the strong emphasis on free software / GPL / alternatives to "big corporate entities" that seems to be a part of the Debian community seems antithetical to the idea of naming their product after DISNEY CHARACTERS. Isn't Disney _exactly_ the big evil company the oppose? Isn't Disney the one working to extend copyright indefinately, put all sorts of protections and technical blocks on DVS, &c &c?
So the name "Sid" is a Debian turnoff to me. And probably others.
As for Knoppix, I didn't find it self-configuring very well on my Latop, but I DID find the Image perfct as a way to set up and configure disc images in a VMWare virtual machine. So, the concept IS a very good one. The distribution (or at last the Desktop) seemed inclined to include quite a few things just for a "coolness" factor which didn't contribute to either usuability or functionality. Strip the whole thing down a little cleaner and meanear and you've got a really nice tool.
Not to mention Ghostwalker, which changes the machine's hostname and rewrites the SID's (I think that's what they're called; I rarely use Windows anymore) on the files so that they are unique and secure.
Happily, there is also free software to do the same thing.
Knoppix + DD (or, as I did it, the Red Hat Install CD recovery mode + DD) has its uses -- if, as you said, the disk is the same. Not ideal for corporate use (unless you're really careful about giving everyone exactly the same PC model). I found it perfect when receiving a repacement laptop (exactly the same model) to which I needed to directly transfer the contents a dual-boot setup. It's nice that, for a one-time use, you can find capable tools for free. Obviously, that doesn't mean the professional utilites perform the same task.
PC gaming, especially with regards to RTS games, is very big in Korea and so is online play.
Right. And if you already have a nice PC that you use for gaming, why are you going to go out and buy another, feature-cut PC, which is much less powerful and more restricted than the one you already have?
The responsibility of the attorney is to advocate for a resolution favorable to his/her client, regardless of guilt or liability if the defendant, or baselessness of the charge or claim if the plaintiff.
However, except for certain specific circumstances (usually regarding criminal law: public defenders, etc.), the attorney DOES have the option to choose whether or not to undertake a case. If the lawyer thinks you are a greedy idiot (for instance, suing McDonalds because you are fat), they don't HAVE to support your lawsuit.
What it means is, even if a user comes to them with an obvious (simple diagnosis, simple solution) problem such as "I can connect to the Internet but not load any Web sites...
...it would not even be acceptable to say "Please contact newdotnet support to resolve this issue, their web address is...."
regardless, it certainly wouldn't be very helpful to direct a user who couldn't load any web sites to a web site!
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It's got nothing to do with two people disagreeing on what is and what isn't spam. It's got to do with people making mistakes. That Bob would classify some of the email differently is irrelevant.
I've hand classified email before, and I made mistakes. My definition of spam didn't change between making the mistake and noticing it, I simply put a few emails in the wrong category.
But now you are getting down to the specifics of using a specific tool to read through mail as you decide which items to move to which folder (good, or spam). Of course, with a bad interface, you can make mistakes. It could be too easy to double click, or if you hold the delete key a second too long it could delete two mails at a time. Or you could not be paying attention.
That's irrelevant.
We're not talking about a specific mail reading interface. We'er talking about pure classification. I give you a piece of mail to look at and you tell me "This is spam" or "This is not Spam". That's what the program is doing.
Spam is what is defined by humans as Spam.
To determine the accuracy of a spam detector, it is necessary first to come up with a sample of what is or isn't Spam. (I'd assume a human would do this?) So the best result we can get be evaluating humans is how often they agree with the result of the initial label.
This figure probably won't be 100%. People have slightly different concepts of what mail is requested vs. unwanted, and what is advertising or useful information. So there is a valid possibility of disagreement.
That doesn't mean humans can't do the job accurataly. (After all, if they couldn't, then the initial human-made labels would themselves be wrong and any data based on them meaningless!)
If the training data is labeled with the same criteria as the test data, it is obviously possible that a trained system can acheive results which more closely agree with the test data. They are being trained on similiar data. But that doesn't mean that the system is MORE accurate at detecting spam than humans. It means that the system agrees with a particular human (or set of humans) more than other people do in a labelling of spam/non-spam.
For all we know, the evaluators idea of spam is "wrong".
Some pop-bottle promotions have been using an opaque plastic, meaning that you couldn't tell even when you tilt the bottle to look at the inside of the cap.
or they could just put a little bit more soda into the bottle.
I'm using my tax return to buy a laptop.
Here's my advice. Send the tax return to the IRS, and use the tax REFUND to buy the laptop. Otherwise the shopkeeper might laught at you, and you won't get the laptop.
It might also be very beneficial to go through the code and clearly label which values are imperial measurements and which are metric.
This more than inconvenienced the owners of that site, who had to move pages and ended up displaying this page instead."
On the other hand, you could say that it benefited the owners of the site. After all, people were interested enough in fractals and/or Julia (or just the picture they saw), to follow up and seek out more information. Isn't the purposes of those sites to provide information to people interested in fractals?
Chances are, people who found the sites down will follow up the same links today or tomorrow to read more about fractals. Ultimately, it will increase traffic (and interest) to those sites. Thats's a good thing.
How the fuck can you be 'complicit' in a suicide in the first place?
Easy! Either you, or your wife Cherie, calls up MI5, and asked them to quiet a certain Dr. Kelleyp. And then you add "if you can make it look like a suicide...all the better".
Or somesuch.
The article seemed interesting, but I gave up only one category in. Come on -- one or two paragraphs and a picture per page? That could have easily all fit on one screen and been MUCH easier to read, and prevent having to wait for a ton of extraneous border material to reload and rerender for each component. You don't make people turn the page of your magazine for each new paragraph, do you???
Apple ][, ][+, and ][e used the brackets. the //c (like the ///) was diagonal.
(and I know this because I had one!)
the "//c" text is at the upper right of the system.
also, if you look carefully at the system, you'll also note the slanted buttons and lights above the keyboard to go along with the logo -- the slant is at the same angle!
it was a witty refrence the last time it was used, but doing the exact thing again in two weeks' time does make it feel a bit trite and unoriginal, doesn't it?
i realize the transfer was in the oppposite direction, but ...coupling was (is?) just "friends in a pub". still wasn't worth watching.
perfect! now all we have to do is fill your living room with popcorn, and...
What I would like to see would be some full distribution like Gentoo 'ported'...
"BlackRhino is a free Debian-based GNU/Linux software distribution for the Sony PlayStation 2."
Quicktime and iTunes have a very large number of problems. But at least they've never tried to embed advertisements into your playback windows.
...starts quicktime...
"Hey you downloaded the free version of our software. But you really want to pay version, right?"
not in the playback window, but still, an ad pitch.
so that's the actual, technical term for this dialog box?
Maybe he does, but that has nothing to do with said comment...
As for the photograph, many of us USians know just how little a state issued ID photo has to look like its carrier...
...hence the fingerprinting.
Some people might be put off by the word "unstable," or the word "Sid" (the name of the mentally unstable kid in the movie "Toy Story").
I suppose that I'm one of those people. To me, the strong emphasis on free software / GPL / alternatives to "big corporate entities" that seems to be a part of the Debian community seems antithetical to the idea of naming their product after DISNEY CHARACTERS. Isn't Disney _exactly_ the big evil company the oppose? Isn't Disney the one working to extend copyright indefinately, put all sorts of protections and technical blocks on DVS, &c &c?
So the name "Sid" is a Debian turnoff to me. And probably others.
As for Knoppix, I didn't find it self-configuring very well on my Latop, but I DID find the Image perfct as a way to set up and configure disc images in a VMWare virtual machine. So, the concept IS a very good one. The distribution (or at last the Desktop) seemed inclined to include quite a few things just for a "coolness" factor which didn't contribute to either usuability or functionality. Strip the whole thing down a little cleaner and meanear and you've got a really nice tool.
New SID
Happily, there is also free software to do the same thing.
Knoppix + DD (or, as I did it, the Red Hat Install CD recovery mode + DD) has its uses -- if, as you said, the disk is the same. Not ideal for corporate use (unless you're really careful about giving everyone exactly the same PC model). I found it perfect when receiving a repacement laptop (exactly the same model) to which I needed to directly transfer the contents a dual-boot setup. It's nice that, for a one-time use, you can find capable tools for free. Obviously, that doesn't mean the professional utilites perform the same task.
Right. And if you already have a nice PC that you use for gaming, why are you going to go out and buy another, feature-cut PC, which is much less powerful and more restricted than the one you already have?
But look at it from another perspective: Lotus Notes is not an email application, it's a database application.
:;)
I'm sure that we could come up with some complaints about cc:Mail, as well
The responsibility of the attorney is to advocate for a resolution favorable to his/her client, regardless of guilt or liability if the defendant, or baselessness of the charge or claim if the plaintiff.
However, except for certain specific circumstances (usually regarding criminal law: public defenders, etc.), the attorney DOES have the option to choose whether or not to undertake a case. If the lawyer thinks you are a greedy idiot (for instance, suing McDonalds because you are fat), they don't HAVE to support your lawsuit.
regardless, it certainly wouldn't be very helpful to direct a user who couldn't load any web sites to a web site!
If that happens, they send someone out to buy them a preposition.