How much energy does spamming consume? Approximately 33 billion kilowatt-hours per year, according to ICF. That’s a lot of energy, the amount some 2.4 million homes typically use in a year. However, with spam filtering in place, the energy savings approach 135 billion kilowatt-hours, or enough energy to power 9.8 million homes. (In terms of [...]
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Interlude
Spotted in the wild. And yes, this version of Spam isn’t good for you either.
The Spam slot machine!
Error 1064
I’m doing some text classification stuff related to spam and needed to install MySQL (5.0.41) on my iMac running Tiger (10.4.9). However, when attempting to create a table with MySQL Administrator I get the following error:
An example showing MySQL error 1064
For the life of me, I have no idea why it’s giving me this error, [...]
A Plan for Spam
Playing around today with Genalyze and parsing some recent spam that fell into my trap reminded me of the great articles on spam-filtering and analysis by Paul Graham. I was surprised I didn’t have a link to his website here. Remedied. Graham’s site should be required reading, not just for his articles on spam, but [...]
Genalyze 0.1.0 Released
I’ve gone ahead and released Genalyze into the wild.
Obviously, there’s still a lot of work to be done as it slowly evolves into something more than just a utility to parse Genesys T-Server logs, my original intent with this project. Already I’ve been playing around with it to do spam analysis.
This first release is a [...]
Bayesian Spam Filter
A complete spam filter suite based on Bayesian statistical analysis.
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( AbstractIterator.java ) ( AbstractTable.java ) ( AbstractTokenizer.java )
( BasicIO.java ) ( BSFTest.java ) ( BSFTrain.java )
( ClassifyingTable.java ) ( HashTableFullException.java ) ( KrustyTokenizer.java )
( MondoHashTable.java ) ( NGramTokenizer.java ) ( RawData.java )
( SerializedFileReader.java ) ( SerializedFileWriter.java ) ( SkippingTokenizer.java )
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