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Bayesian news by email   06.06.2005, 10:42 AM

posted by ben vershbow

Another interesting prototype from BBC Backstage: news feeds delivered by email with Bayesian filtering. In other words, you can flag the kind of messages you want to receive more of, and the kind you want to receive less of, purifying the signal, as it were. This kind of filtering was first developed to deal with spam. Here's what it looks like in your mail viewer:

Posted by ben vershbow on June 6, 2005 10:42 AM
tags: General

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