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Matt Kettler said:
> Ok, first, the important stuff. Happy birthday Justin (a lil late, but
> oh well)
cheers!
> a 13% miss ratio on the spam corpus at 5.0 seems awfully high, although
> that nice low FP percentage is quite nice, as is the narrow-in of average
> FP/FN scores compared to 2.40.
As Dan said -- it's a hard corpus, made harder without the spamtrap data.
Also -- and this is an important point -- those measurements can't be
directly compared, because I changed the methodology.  In 2.40 the scores
were evolved on the entire corpus, then evaluated using that corpus; ie.
there was no "blind" testing, and the scores could overfit and still
provide good statistics.
In 2.42, they're evaluated "blind", on a totally unseen set of messages,
so those figures would be a lot more accurate for real-world use.
--j.

> Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >and say hello to the cool:  Oooo ... /this/ is going to cause
> some stir ...
>
> Of course not.  Some people just don't want to be confused by the facts.
For anyone to fully bury global warming, they would need to explain why the
dramatic increase in CO2 concentrations are not increasing the global
temperature. They would also need to explain why, worldwide, glaciers are
melting faster than they have previously in the historical record. That is,
people need more than refutations, they need a compelling alternate
explanation (hint: climate variability doesn't cover all the bases).
- Jim

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