New new script to train bogofilter

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Fri Jul 4 14:44:44 CEST 2003


Greg Louis wrote:

>> As you see, in practice there is no problem with
>> overtraining.
> 
> What I see is that you have not (yet?) encountered problems.  That has
> not been my experience.  I overtrained for a while, and stopped when I
> discovered (a) that my fn counts were rising and (b) that rebuilding
> the training db without overtraining brought them back down.

So where do you see possible overtraining? The script has
done its job.

>> After all I could have received it twice anyway.
> 
> If you receive it twice, you do not distort the estimation of what the
> population's like if you add it twice.

Yes, but is only a very minor thing.

pi





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