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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by pixcavator on Friday November 02, 2007 @08:07PM (#75657)
Where would the idea of "is bigger than" or "is the following number of" come from if not from the person who creates the network?
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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by zyroth on Saturday November 03, 2007 @05:47AM (#75746)
Training examples.
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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by pixcavator on Saturday November 03, 2007 @07:26AM (#75751)
Computers can form concepts, really?
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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by zyroth on Saturday November 03, 2007 @10:04AM (#75777)
If you want them to learn a specific concept that we know, they can learn it, yes.
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