Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers
by fragmede on Saturday June 04, 2022 @04:08PM
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With the accessibility of ML these days, I'm less convinced that spam protection is that hard, if you have a little bit of patience. The spam I get is repetitive and bad, and I get enough of it that I think I could get a workable model simply by using Gmail's spam tagging to train it.
Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers
by SAI_Peregrinus on Saturday June 04, 2022 @04:24PM
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Back in the day ('noughties through 2015 or so) there was POPFile, which did Bayesian classification of emails for spam filtering. John Graham-Cumming wrote it, and it worked reasonably well. I still think of him as the POPFile guy first, then remember he's the Cloudflare CTO.
A more advanced classifier certainly do better these days.
The email protocol isn't complicated though. Back before spam was a thing, lots of people could just open a port and manually talk SMTP (you could send messages as Santa, or whatever). The only service Gmail provides that's not trivial (and I mean, something that can be done in a whiteboard interview) is the spam protection.