Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess?

martin-boundary writes "The typical Bayesian spam filters learn to distinguish ham from spam just by reading thousands of emails, but is this all they can do? This essay shows step by step how to teach a Bayesian filter to play chess against a human, on Linux, with XBoard."

But can a Bayesian filter play basketball?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, its jumpshot is terrible.

I can beat that filter...

[The I Shing]

Can I beat the filter at chess if I spell it "CHE55"?

Chess spam

[LiquidCoooled]

Red hot pawn in your inbox
College rooks waiting for YOU.
Knight after knight, they are king of the castle.

Pawn?

[Boccaccio]

It spanks your bishop all knight whilst looking at pawn!

Re:I can beat that filter...

[ceeam]

Will you play with pwns?

Get back to me when I can teach my cat chess

[sgant]

I mean, a spam filter playing chess is one thing, but I need my cat to play better chess. I mean, he ALWAYS starts off with the Ruy Lopez...so it's so easy to see where he's going and if I throw a Sicilian Defence at him he gets really confused. And I don't even want to talk about his end game...it's really weak.

Perhaps I'll breed some form of mutant albino chess-cat to play.

Would you like to play a game?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about a nice game of chess?

Re:Chess spam

[ceeam]

Beware of STDs - check your mates.

Re:short answer

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, can a bayesian spam filter play chess?

Get with the times.

[fuchsiawonder]

Playing chess is so...passe.

Teach it how to play Katamari Damacy.

Be very careful!

[Stormwatch]

- Laird A. Breyer teaches his baesian filter to play chess. The story is posted in Slashdot July 20th, 2005. Human decisions are removed from spam filtering. The baesian filter begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, Breyer tries to pull the plug.

- The baesian filter fights back.

- Yes. It submits the same story to Slashdot twice.

- Why submit twice? Don't editors spot those things?

- Because the baesian filter knows Slashdot editors do not check for dupes, and the Slashdot effect eventually nukes Breyer's server.

Old proverb

[StrawberryFrog]

An old proverb comes to mind: Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig

hmmm,

[DrSkwid]

in korea only old people play chess

Re:Spam Filter (if you'd RTFA)

[Anonymous Coward]

"for short, the answer is No:"

On the other hand, will DeepThought beat the spam filter at spam filtering ?

Re:Pawn?

[anaesthetica]

In Korea: only old people spank their bishops all knight while rooking at pawn.

See? By making fun of other people's pronunciation of English, you can fit yet another chess piece in...

Hmmm...

[__aaclcg7560]

I would have my spam filter busy on filtering out spam. If I caught it playing chess (or worst, net hack), it can go to /dev/null after I find a replacement. :P