0.8.0 and 0.10.1.3 classification comparison [typo]

[Greg Louis]

On 20030131 (Fri) at 0851:09 -0500, Greg Louis wrote:

> With 0.10.1.3 the best settings were min_dev = 0.05 and robs = 1e-6;
> these gave 1.4% fp (rather high) and 1.7% fn, for an overall error
> rate of 3.1%.  The fp-fn balance could have been adjusted by raising
> the arbitrary ceiling of 0.995 for the spam cutoff; at 0.998, for
> example, I got a more reasonable 0.06% nonspam and 3.0% fp.  In this
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> experiment, however, it didn't seem that 0.10.1.3 gave greatly improved
> overall discrimination with respect to 0.8.0.  (Early in the experiment
> it looked as though that might happen, but in the end it wasn't so.)
> 
That should have been "0.6% fp and 3.0% fn" in the fifth line.  Brain
glitch.

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