{"id":5543,"date":"2004-02-24T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/24\/no-worries.html"},"modified":"2004-02-24T07:28:13","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T14:28:13","slug":"no_worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/24\/no_worries.html","title":{"rendered":"No worries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doyce noted with some worry <\/a>yesterday that computers are on the verge of being smarter than humans when it comes to chess. On the other hand, it may be a good <\/i>thing that computers (or, more properly, software programs) are beginning to be more accurate than humans<\/a> when it comes to spam.<\/p>\n

The authors of two spam filters, CRM114 and DSPAM, announced recently that their filters have achieved accuracy rates ten times better than a human is capable of. Based on a study by Bill Yerazunis of CRM114, the average human is only 99.84% accurate. Both filters are reporting to have reached accuracy levels between 99.983% and 99.984% (1 misclassification in 6250 messages) using completely different approaches (CRM114 touts Markovan, while DSPAM implements a Dolby-type noise reduction algorithm called Dobly).<\/p>\n

I’ll note that my own lowly Bayesian filter, POPfile<\/a>, is currently running around 98.24% accurate (including its training period). I’m almost worried about getting a higher accuracy rate — much better, and I’d slack off in checking to see if there were any false positives, which might not <\/i>be a good thing.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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