Virtually all computations performed by the nervous system are subject to uncertainty and taking this into account is critical for making inferences about the outside world. For instance, imagine ...

Achieving a 98%+ spam detection rate using a mathematical approach This white paper describes how Bayesian mathematics can be applied to the spam problem, resulting in an adaptive, ‘statistical ...

We suspect that you had more than enough mathematics in the form of Bayes Theorem last week so this week we’ll explain how it’s used in what is called Bayesian filtering to remove spam (note that the ...

Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayes rule, a statistical theorem that gives you the probability of an event. Bayesian filtering is used to give you the probability that a certain email is spam. 2 ...