Bayesian filters…

Posted May 22, 2025 15:37 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Bayesian filters… by NYKevin
Parent article: Debian AI General Resolution withdrawn

Erm, yes. I press a few buttons to say “this was really spam”. That’s the training. That’s it. (Except there’s also a “this really wasn’t spam” to tell it to not repeat the false positive.)

That’s all the training is.

Bayesian filters…

Posted May 24, 2025 9:54 UTC (Sat) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link] (1 responses)

The idea is that you "press a few buttons" once, over the course of maybe five minutes. Not "press a few buttons" many times over the course of days or weeks at a minimum. You may think that's an unreasonable expectation, but all the proprietary vendors provide it. Why should FOSS be *forced* to provide an inferior experience for users who just don't care that much about the quality of the classifier?

Bayesian filters…

Posted May 25, 2025 10:21 UTC (Sun) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

If you do not care about quality, just do not press the buttons, problem solved.

Proprietary vendor sell to advertisers the right to be considered ham by the filters.
You get what you pay for, as always.