Dave Schneider wrote to Chris Santerre and [email protected]:
Am I the only one that chokes on the "1 false positive out of 25000" ??!! Thats like..hundreds an hour in my environments... Ill stick to my schema..
Hi Dave,
As others have mentioned, 1/25000 FP rate is rather good.
However, you've misquoted them. Their quote refers to "misclassifying only one out of 25,000 emails". "Misclassifying" is ambiguous. It *might* mean, out of 25,000 emails, they had only one FP *or* FN (you guess which one), which would indeed be impressive (but not unprecedented)... or it might mean their filter is so aggressive that they only had 1 FN out of 25,000, but haven't bothered to publish their FP rate... which might mean it's pretty abysmal.
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- Ryan
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