Alexander Williams

“Markovian models -- specifically, hidden Markov Models -- are also related to our old friend, Bayesian spam filtering. They're even better!”

“Instructions: The server will think up a word, and add it to the end of the list above. Type in the first word that comes to mind and press enter, or click "Frac!". If nothing comes to mind, click on more...

“The "I challenge your challenge!" scenario is particularly amusing. And on top of the two issues Scott highlights, there are other social problems with challenge/response spam blocking. Although I've had great success with POPFile, which uses Bayesian filtering techniques, I more...