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Sep 26, 2017
12:00:58pm

Kilgore Trout All-American

Machine learning is cool, but far from perfect.

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Kilgore Trout

Previous username: kilgore
Bio page: Kilgore Trout
Joined: Jan 3, 2002
Last login: Apr 25, 2024
Total posts: 12,704 (45 FO)

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Over the past week, Gmail has began directing many of my emails to SPAM

OldCosmo

9/26/17 10:48am

The canned cooked meat industry.

Caboom

9/26/17 10:50am

<homer> mmm... Spam...<homer /></homer>

OldCosmo

9/26/17 11:16am

If you mark them as not spam, Gmail will learn from your feedback

mik3

9/26/17 10:55am

Yes, I'm aware. What, why, to they trigger SPAM markings across a set of emails?

OldCosmo

9/26/17 11:12am

Machine learning is cool, but far from perfect.

9/26/17 12:00pm

Political fundraising?

Paco

9/26/17 10:56am

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BYUMizzou

9/26/17 11:03am

this is my guess as well.

Blue Print

9/26/17 11:22am

^ has no idea how spam filtering works

mik3

9/26/17 11:30am

except he was right.

Blue Print

9/26/17 12:14pm

On the reasons why something got misclassified?

mik3

9/26/17 12:16pm

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BYUMizzou

9/26/17 12:23pm

Sorry, didn't mean to be so harsh. Spam filtering is incredibly complex.

mik3

9/26/17 12:34pm

No. They look to see what words are in the email to determine spam.

Blue Print

9/26/17 12:28pm

That's absolutely not how this works, my friend.

mik3

9/26/17 12:35pm

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