Comments on: Installing akismet http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/ Very helpful! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:11:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: entirely safe and fun » Blog Archive » The wild Adirondacks http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-752 entirely safe and fun » Blog Archive » The wild Adirondacks Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:52:35 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-752 [...] I’ve reported before on my installation of the Akismet comment-spam-fighting plugin, and it continues to amaze with its accuracy and precision. As far as I know, just one spam comment has gotten through since I installed it, and it has yet to flag a legit comment as spam. [...] […] I’ve reported before on my installation of the Akismet comment-spam-fighting plugin, and it continues to amaze with its accuracy and precision. As far as I know, just one spam comment has gotten through since I installed it, and it has yet to flag a legit comment as spam. […]

]]> By: Colin http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-323 Colin Tue, 02 May 2006 15:37:19 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-323 I just looked at my last comment... Geez, what a fanboy. sigh I just looked at my last comment… Geez, what a fanboy. sigh

]]> By: Colin http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-322 Colin Tue, 02 May 2006 15:36:47 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-322 Thanks for coming by! If you ever feel it would be appropriate to chat about some of the tech, even abstractly, I'd love to set up a talk. My main interest, and my academic and real-world career, has been (machine) learning systems in the real world, and in particular I'm fascinated by the strong biases that functioning systems exhibit - those special-purpose gadgets I was referring to in my last para being a great example of precisely the sort of thing that ML system designers tend to disavow but then incorporate, which I think misses an important point about how successful biological systems work. We're better off embracing engineering approaches from the get-go. akismet is one of those places where the rubber meets the road, up against motivated humans and their bot creations. You've got a steady supply of state-of-the-art adversaries, which is an awesome resource. You've even got volunteer human labelers, be they ever so unreliable, who help in generating a huge data set - human-labeled data was, for some .coms, one of those expenses which made their business model impractical. You've got the tech. I would love to learn about it. Thanks for coming by! If you ever feel it would be appropriate to chat about some of the tech, even abstractly, I’d love to set up a talk. My main interest, and my academic and real-world career, has been (machine) learning systems in the real world, and in particular I’m fascinated by the strong biases that functioning systems exhibit - those special-purpose gadgets I was referring to in my last para being a great example of precisely the sort of thing that ML system designers tend to disavow but then incorporate, which I think misses an important point about how successful biological systems work. We’re better off embracing engineering approaches from the get-go.

akismet is one of those places where the rubber meets the road, up against motivated humans and their bot creations. You’ve got a steady supply of state-of-the-art adversaries, which is an awesome resource. You’ve even got volunteer human labelers, be they ever so unreliable, who help in generating a huge data set - human-labeled data was, for some .coms, one of those expenses which made their business model impractical. You’ve got the tech. I would love to learn about it.

]]> By: Matt http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-320 Matt Tue, 02 May 2006 07:34:01 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2006/05/01/installing-akismet/#comment-320 There is definitely some interesting stuff under the hood. It's one of the funnest things I've worked on in a long time. :) There is definitely some interesting stuff under the hood. It’s one of the funnest things I’ve worked on in a long time. :)

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