[Spambayes] aging information

[Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions]

2/17/2003 11:33:44 AM, "D. R. Evans" <N7DR at arrisi.com> wrote:

>I will try to code this all up. Don't hold your collective breaths, 
>though. The first time I ever saw a line of python code was about three 
>days ago, when I had to hack part of CDDB-info.py.
>
>So before I do anything else I need to read and digest a couple of 
>python books. Then I need to understand how the spambayes code works. 
>So you can see that it will take a while.

First time I saw Python was in this project too... You'll come up to speed 
very quickly.  I bought "Core Python Programming" by Chen.

>
>Thanks for the replies, though. This is an interesting game :-)

The fight is on.  Welcome to the swat team!  - TimS

>
>  Doc
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>On 17 Feb 2003 at 17:08, Toby Dickenson wrote:
>
>> On Monday 17 February 2003 4:58 pm, Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > >You can still make it work. Every time you do a new train do
>> > >something like this:
>> > >
>> > >for each token in the databse
>> > >{ number of times this token has been in ham *= 0.99;
>> > >  number of times this token has been in spam *= 0.99;
>> > >}
>> 
>> ....and remove the token from the database when the numbers are
>> sufficiently close to zero.
>> 
>> > At any rate, we invariably measure the success of these kind of things
>> > in terms of the fp and fn rate.  - TimS
>> 
>> And database size.
>> 
>> 
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