Levi has called me out:
1 Pick up the nearest book.
2 Open to page 123.
3 Find the fifth sentence.
4 Post the next three sentences.
5 Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever followed through with one of these things. Years ago Enrique tagged me with something about my music collection on a blog I don’t think he even has any more. I set out to participate in that one, but never finished posting it. But the idea that Levi, of all people, would participate in such internettery—well, I just don’t know what to make of it. I guess I just have to play along.
So, the selected book is Programming Collective Intelligence. I’m not entirely sure how to count code samples for this exercise, but since they would not be very interesting if they were sentences of themselves, and since they follow colons, I’m going to count them as part of the sentence that introduces them. So we are left with:
However, it’s possible that you might have better background information than that, even on a completely untrained classifier. For example, one person who begins training a spam filter can use probabilities from other people’s already-trained spam filters as the assumed probabilities. The user still gets a spam filter personalized for him, but the filter is better able to handle words that it has come across very infrequently.
Curiously, I left off on page 124 when I de-trained on my way home tonight. This is a great tech book, by the way. It has a lot of practical examples, and they are all written in Python, with which I’m kind of smitten of late.
So I guess I’m obliged to tag some other people. I feel so out of the bloggy loop!
- Chris
- Sandy, so that I can help with the pledge.
- Dave
- Heath
- Jason
Don’t break the chain!