in reply to Bayesian Filtering for Spam

I did much the same as you. But being out of copious spare time™, I'd suggest you have two choices if you want to do the do-it-yourself thing:

Of the two, the second is both more direct and most likely to be the shorter game plan. Besides if that doesn't work, you can fall back on the first suggestion!

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

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Re^2: Bayesian Filtering for Spam
by vladb (Vicar) on Aug 17, 2002 at 20:15 UTC
    From the number of technical articles and reports Paul Graham writes on a regular basis, aside from other teaching work he might be involved in, I guess it's always more prudent to just learn lisp on your own and then try to decypher his spam lisp code with the gained knowledge. Imagine if there were literally hundreds of 'fans' seeking this knowledge from the wise? This could overwhelm anyone, even a guy holding Ph.D. Besides, even if he were to explain the code, he'll do it from the point of view of a Lisp expert and resort to describing aspects of Lisp involved in the code. Therefore, the best option then becomes to simply read an online Lisp reference on your own.


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      The interesting twist is that this filter can probably be used to block or flag requests to explain the code. So that shouldn't be too much of a nuisance.
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Re: Re: Bayesian Filtering for Spam
by kal (Hermit) on Aug 19, 2002 at 15:20 UTC

    Lisp is well easy. It's just, like, Polish notation, but with the ability to define functions :)

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