Fisher, exim, word pairs and thanks

[Karl Schmidt]

Greg Louis wrote:
> On 20030102 (Thu) at 1619:58 -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>I think an argument might be made that it is better to waste computer 
>>time than user time.
> 
> 
> I won't quarrel if you'll fund the computer muscle :)  As long as the
> computer can handle several thousand messages an hour on average, and
> it can be shown by queuing theory that the instantaneous probability of
> its losing email due to saturation is somewhere in the 1e-5 range, we
> have room to increase complexity of the classification algorithm.

I have a hunch there are lots of folks just running  on a personal 
machine. Anyway, as a optional stting down the road I bet it will work 
very well.  My thanks again for sharing your hard work.

On another tangent - once in operation, is it better to add all emails 
to the db - even the ones correctly sorted or just the ones missed?

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